Ambonese Herbal : Being a Description of the Most Noteworthy Trees, Schrubs, Herbs, Land-and Water-Plants Which are Found in amboina and the Surrounding Islands According to Their Shape, Various Names, Cultivation, and Use: Together with Several Insects and Animals

Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus; Beekman, E. M. (TRN)

ISBN 10: 0300153759 / ISBN 13: 9780300153750

Edité par Yale University Press, 2011

N° de réf. du vendeur 9166574-n

Synopsis :

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple uses, he succeeded in creating a cultural and scientific treasury of incomparable value not only for his contemporaries but also for todays botanists, anthropologists, ethnobotanists, science historians, medicinal chemists, and other scholars. Rumphius comprehensive reference, complete with 811 original illustrations, describes in remarkable detail more than 2,000 plants, their habitats, and their economic and medicinal uses. He also records native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch, and Ambonese - and often in Macassarese and South Chinese as well. In an illuminating introduction, E. M. Beekman discusses the works significance for tropical botanical literature, examines Rumphius influence on Linnaeus work, and surveys the Indonesian economic and medicinal uses of the plants Rumphius described. Beekman also provides invaluable annotations throughout the Herbal.

À propos de l'auteur: Georgius Everhardus Rumphius (1627-1702), a soldier and naturalist, arrived on the island of Ambon in Indonesia in 1653 and until his death devoted himself to the task of documenting the tropical environment he encountered there. The late E. M. Beekman, a highly acclaimed authority on colonial and Dutch language and literature, was Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was also an accomplished poet and novelist and the author of two dozen books.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Ambonese Herbal : Being a Description of the...
Éditeur : Yale University Press
Date d'édition : 2011
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New