stumble on her maiden the boat thoroughly. While still in the Gulf of Ambon, a jet from the water jumped over starboard, which is after Ambonese Adat guarantee a safe and trouble-free travel. I saw that it was not, but the first mate did, and spoke to spread, put a smile on their faces quickly under occupation.
You Rumphius was named in honor and memory of the first scientists of Ambon. Her hull was painted yellow and white superstructure. It was the project boat, a floating office say and our means of transport. They brought six passengers and carried a crew of seven, all of Ambon, with the exception of the cook, who hailed from the mountains of Tana Toraja. Built on the farm in Ambon by shipwrights of Asilulu, they had also selected and precipitated the need for their construction trees on Pulau Pulau Hatala and Ela.
The other Rumphius (Georg Eberhard Rumph) was in Hesse, Germany, born in 1627, left in the middle of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which to those who survived an indelible impression including Rumphius , The devastation of the country and the indiscriminate killing of people had shown the irrelevance of "pages" and began an abhorrence of religious fanaticism and aristocracy, had made use of the war to improve their own position. Rumphius fled the chaos of a country that had been raped, looted and murdered in exhaustion. He escaped from fraudulent authority, hypocritical religion and social inequality. He possessed a just and incorruptible spirit and not suffer fools gladly. He was modest and polite, and was able to become accessible to the mood of the Ambonese.
Herbarium Amboinense
In 1653, at the age of 26, Rumphius came in Batavia (now Jakarta). His many talents were, have taken note and has been well received, with a bureaucratic and commercial Calvinist veneer. Besides the obligatory ability and Dutch Reformed Church to speak membership, he could write and speak German, Portuguese and Latin. He also had military experience and training had undergone engineering, especially in the construction of ski jumps.
was He soon assigned as an engineer ( fabryck ) to VOC forces in Amboina (now Ambon), where he arrived in 1654, although too quickly promoted vaandrig - the lowest rank of sergeant in the VOC militia - he traded for a civilian one of his military assignment in 1657 and was placed as a junior trader ( onderkoopman ) in Larike on the west coast of the island of Ambon.
It is here that he began his studies of the flora and fauna, rocks, minerals and geology of Ambon and the neighboring islands. What started as a hobby eventually in Amboinsch Kruidboek (Herbarium Amboinense) and Amboinsche Rariteitkamer (Amboina Curiosity Cabinet) led , his two major books.
The Herbarium Amboinense is a tremendous job that runs 1661 folio pages in six volumes. It is a catalog of the plants of the island Ambon, published posthumously in 1741. It includes 1,0 species, 930 with certain types name and another 140 identified to genus level. The book is a basis for all studies of the flora of the Moluccas and is called today. Unlike the Amboina Curiosity Cabinet , the book, unfortunately, remains untranslated.
The Amboina Curiosity Cabinet was also published posthumously. The original edition was published in 1705, in 340 folio pages, with 60 plates and five vignettes. An English version of the book is now available (Amazon and other bookstores) at a price of US $ 45. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, and translated, edited and annotated by E. M. Beekman, who also wrote the introduction. Dr. Beekman captures the style of Rumphius nice and the translation is agile and easy to read. The description of a mollusk is interesting, while the accounts of the local beliefs are really absorbent and not only for those with a past in ethno-ichthyology.
The road to publication of these books was long and winding and full of pitfalls. The finished manuscript of Herbarium Amboinense was sent in 0 in Batavia, Governor General Johannes Camphuys to Amsterdam to Jakarta for forwarding had made a copy before the sending. The ship, carrying the manuscript was on his way to the Netherlands when it attacked and sunk by a French frigate.
Before the news of this reached Batavia and Ambon have passed more than two years, must, and an updated Camphuys finally copy arrived in Amsterdam in 1696 but the Heeren XVII , the Board of VOC, in an effort to protect their monopoly, decided that it should not be published. contained Knowing the natural resources of eastern Indonesia, has not allowed it to be made public, and certainly do not fall into the wrong hands; the British, Portuguese or Spanish. Furthermore, it was clear that in spite of his blindness, Rumphius could continue on its collection work. The Herbarium was finally published in 1741, almost four decades after Rumphius' death.
Amboina Curiosity Cabinet
It is for the same reason that permission, the Amboinsche Rariteitkamer publish was long many years retained.
But long before that, Rumphius had to deal with disasters. In 1662, he had stationed promoted to dealers and head of Hitu coast, in Hila. But when, in 1670, he contracted glaucoma and lost his eyesight, the first reaction of the governor of Ambon was paid to the end of its content and demand that he leave the company house. Governor General Joan Maatsuycker, definitely a great admirer and fan of Rumphius' scientific work, this decision and transmitted Rumphius rejected to Ambon with retention of title and content.
by assistants he support continued his work, but he start writing from scratch because there was no one he could dictate Latin - yes, he should write the Herbarium in Latin. And then, in 1687 all the pictures were lost in the fire of Ambon. And yet he continued, begin again, his assistant director in 0, until finally the Herbarium was completed.
Other books by Rumphius are Amboinsche history and Amboinsche Lant-Beschrijvinge (a social geography). Not only Rumphius is known for his work as a botanist, but also for his major contributions to plant systematics, his skills as an ethnologist, and his frequent defense Ambonese peoples against colonialism.
Rumphius is a perfect example of a gifted amateur scientists to study the flora and fauna of Ambon, which was an authority. Despite the distance and the time-consuming communication, he was elected to the German scientific society Academia Naturae Curiosorum , where he worked on his colleagues as Pliny Indicus (Pliny was known Indies).
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