ルンフィウスの『アンボイナ島植物誌』（1741年刊・英訳・全６巻） The Ambonese Herbal (6-Volume Set)

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

Yale Univ Pr（2011/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 3216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780300153767
• DDC分類 581.959852

基本説明

Rumphius' complete masterwork in twelve books plus an "Auctuarium", a description of the plants found on Ambon Indonesia, is now published for the first time in English. Complete with 811 original illustrations, describes in remarkable detail more than 2,000 plants, their habitats, and their economic and medicinal uses.

Full Description

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.