Burman the Botanist, Digitisation, and Circulation

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15 janvier 2018

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Esther Helena Arens, « Burman the Botanist, Digitisation, and Circulation », Botanical Letters, ID : 10670/1.4vmu2h


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In the 1730s, in Amsterdam, the desk of Jan Burman was one of the busier nodal points in the network of botanists stretching out from the Netherlands along the routes of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and across Europe. A practising physician and a botanist with the latinised name Joannes Burmannus, he worked on his own Thesaurus Zeylanicus (Amsterdam 1737) while maintaining correspondences for example with Carolus Linnaeus. In the course of the decade, he managed to get access to the man...

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