Ambonese Herbal, Volume 5

Ambonese Herbal, Volume 5

EnglishHardback
Rumphius Georgius Everhardus
Yale University Press
EAN: 9780300153743
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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 for today’s botanists, anthropologists, ethnobotanists, science historians, medicinal chemists, and other scholars. This comprehensive reference, complete with over 800 original illustrations, describes in remarkable detail more than 2,000 plants, their habitats, and their economic and medicinal uses. Also recorded are native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch, and Ambonese—and often in Macassarese and Chinese as well.

E. M. Beekman's introduction discusses the Herbal’s significance for tropical botanical literature and surveys the Indonesian economic and medicinal uses of the plants Rumphius described. Beekman also provides invaluable annotations throughout the Herbal.



Copublished with the National Tropical Botanical Garden
EAN 9780300153743
ISBN 0300153740
Binding Hardback
Publisher Yale University Press
Publication date June 14, 2011
Pages 640
Language English
Dimensions 279 x 191 x 46
Country United States
Readership General
Authors Rumphius Georgius Everhardus
Illustrations 136 b-w illus.
Translators Beekman E. M.