TY - BOOK ID - 77867681 TI - Rumphius' orchids AU - Rumpf, Georg Eberhard AU - Beekman, E M PY - 2003 SN - 1281730122 9786611730123 0300129319 9780300129311 9780300098143 0300098146 PB - New Haven, CT Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Orchids KW - Botany KW - Pre-Linnaean works of botany KW - Pre-Linnean works of botany KW - Orchidaceae KW - Orchidales KW - Rumpf, Georg Eberhard, KW - Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus KW - Rumpf, Georg Eberhard, -- 1627-1702.. KW - Orchids -- Indonesia -- Ambon Island.. KW - Botany -- Pre-Linnean works. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77867681 AB - Rumphius (1627-1702), founder of Indonesian botanical exploration and one of the greatest naturalists of the seventeenth century, was the first to describe tropical orchids in a Western language. Within the pages of his monumental seven-volume Ambonese Herbal, written in Dutch, he included descriptions of thirty-six species of orchids found on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia, plus twelve uncertified ones. His detailed descriptions reflect both the accuracy of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet. This lovely book is the first to gather and translate into English all the sections of Rumphius' The Ambonese Herbal devoted to orchids. For each entry, Rumphius describes the plant, names it according to a pre-Linnaean system of nomenclature, gives its locality, and details its medicinal and non-medicinal uses. More than twenty beautiful line drawings accompany the entries. The volume includes ample notes to illuminate the text and an informative introduction that tells the life of Rumphius-a remarkable collector/naturalist who overcame fire, shipwreck, and blindness to produce his masterwork. ER -