Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense
Herbarium Amboinense de Rumphius
- Date
- c. 1690 (publicado en 1741-1750) · confidence high
- Place
- Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
- Credited to
- Georg Eberhard Rumphius
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
A twelve-volume work by the Dutch East India Company naturalist, describing more than 1,200 plants of Ambon and the Moluccas with their local uses. He compiled it blind, after losing drawings and notes in a fire (1687), and it was published decades after his death.
It was published in 1741-1750 (ed. Johannes Burman); the marine work 'D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer' (1705) and his history of Ambon were published separately.
What it led to
- the foundation of Southeast Asian botany, used by Linnaeus
- a record of the medicinal and food uses of Indonesian plants
- a model of tropical natural history in the Dutch East India Company