The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Herman Boerhaave (1668 - 1738)
Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist, humanist, and physician. Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Boerhaave BotanistLinked print sources: as Mentions or references - Isaac Rand and the Apothecaries' Physic Garden at Chelsea.
References in Documents:
Canella alba, the Bark of the wild
Cinnamon Treefrom
Seed of it, being the last
Arbor bacifera Aromaticaof
Sloane
l)
l)
p. 165
of the trueRoot
Cinnamon Tree, brought from the
Indies
Jab. CayM. D.
Branch ofCloves . Don. D.
Ha. Sloane,M. D.
Sec.
enclosed inNutmegs
Maceas they grow. Don. D. R.
Dixon Lond.
, the Plant is well described in the
Coffee-Berries
Phil. Trans. N° 208
and in
the
Political Uses, read before the
John Houghton
yearly therein 20586 Pounds; which, if all sold in Coffee-Houses,
would amount to 61740 Pounds.
, whichYawpon
the
Thea, but is not very agreeable to
the Generality of
like that of
Box.
altogether solid.Date-stone
Palm-Treeyielding Wine and Oil.
part of the
Cinnamontree
bro't from the
r
Herman
Botanick Protestor at
Leydenwho gave it to
r. Jabez Cay