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  1. Wars and wonders: the inter-island information networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius.Genie Yoo - 2018 - British Journal for the History of Science 51 (4):559-584.
    How did one man living on an island come to acquire information about the rest of the vast archipelago? This article traces the inter-island information networks of Georg Everhard Rumphius (1627–1702), an employee of the Dutch East India Company, who was able to explore the natural world of the wider archipelago without ever leaving the Moluccan island of Ambon. This article demonstrates the complexities of Rumphius's inter-island networks, as he collected information about plants and objects from islands near and far. (...)
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