The Serious Naturalist and the Frivolous Collector: Convergent and Divergent Approaches to Nature in D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer

The traditional literature on D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer depicts a difference between the editor of the text and images, Simon Schijnvoet (1652-1727), and the original author, Georg Everhard Rumphius (1627-1702). Schijnvoet was seen as the ‘frivolous collector’ who did not understand the motives of...

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Main Author: Gijsbert M. van de Roemer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2019-12-01
Series:Early Modern Low Countries
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Online Access:https://openjournals.nl/index.php/emlc/article/view/7238

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