The life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten: (1710 - 1789) ; a personal history of a Dutch virtuoso
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1. Verfasser: Raat, Alexander J. P. 1949- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hilversum Verloren 2010
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Beschreibung:Summary: The life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten details his personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem - to this day a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's documents show us a virtuoso: a connoisseur and dilettante in natural philosophy. They give us a unique glimpse of his character and qualities, but also of his asthmatic sufferings and use of opium. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, take us from the early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic to the exotic Dutch East Indies and from there to the cosmopolitan London of the latter part of the century
Beschreibung:829 S. Ill.
ISBN:9789087041519
9087041519

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