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The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)

a personal history of a Dutch virtuoso
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Author : Alexander J.P. Raat
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Description The Life of Joan Gideon Loten, the 'naturalist Governor of Ceylon', 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.
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Publisher Uitgeverij Verloren b.v.
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Language eng
Page count 829
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Publication date first 2017-05-09
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  • ISBN: 9789087041519 (BB)

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