Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hortus Malabaricus was compiled over a period of nearly 30 years and published in Amsterdam during 1678–1703. [4] The book was conceived by Hendrik van Rheede, who was the Governor of Dutch Malabar at the time.
Frontispiece of the original Latin Hortus Malabaricus. As Hortus Malabaricus is a pre-Linnaean book, the scientific names of plants, equivalent to local Malayalam names, were not included. Since voucher specimens for the book are also not known to exist, the correct identity of many of the plants described was unclear and not verifiable to ...
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein (13 April 1636 – 15 December 1691) was a Dutch military man and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company.Between 1669 and 1676 he served as a governor of Dutch Malabar at Kochi and employed twenty-five people on his book Hortus Malabaricus, describing 740 plants in the region.
This book was the result of specific additional research undertaken with the objective of collecting factual evidence and clarifying various misconceptions, about the original Hortus Malabaricus. However, a book which can be raised to the status of an exclusive biography of Itty Achudan and his contributions to Hortus Malabaricus was done by A ...
Hortus Malabaricus (6 P) S. Works by Baruch Spinoza (7 P) Pages in category "17th-century books in Latin" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.
Hortus Malabaricus ("Garden of Malabar") — 17th century flora published in the Netherlands. The authors, contributors, and botanical taxonomy relevant to the comprehensive treatise on the medicinal properties of the flora of Kerala , a state in India .
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
1678–1703 Amsterdam Hortus Malabaricus Hendrik van Rheede et al. (1636–1691) 1679 Nuremberg Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) 1680 Amsterdam Aloidarium Historia Abraham Munting (1626–1683) 1680 Oxford Historia plantarum universalis Oxoniensis Robert Morison (1620–1683)