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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.
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Cover of Hortus Malabaricus. Hortus indicus malabaricus was the oldest regional flora for any part of the world and was published in India in the 18th century by the Dutch East India Company through the work of Hendrik van Rheede (1636–1691).
Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) [1] was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly.
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 .
Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627–1702), the only portrait of him made by his son Paul Augustus around 1695-96. Georg Eberhard Rumphius (originally: Rumpf; baptized c. 1 November 1627 – 15 June 1702) was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense produced in the face of severe personal ...