Flora Sinensis
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "other uses". Script error: No such module "Italic title".
Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Flora Sinensis is one of the first European natural history books about China, published in Vienna in 1656.[1] Its author, Michał Boym, was a Jesuit missionary from Poland (then the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth).[2]
The book was the first description of an ecosystem of the Far East published in Europe. Boym underlined the medicinal properties of the Chinese plants. The book also included pleas for support of the Catholic Church to Shunzhi Emperor, the Chinese emperor at the time; each page contained a chronogram pointing to the date of 1655, the date of coronation of Emperor Leopold I as the King of Hungary, as Boym wanted to gain support of that monarch for his mission.
-
Drawing of, probably, the sugar-apple
-
Pepper
-
A squirrel (松鼠) chasing a green-haired turtle (绿毛龟)
-
Hippopotamus
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Script error: No such module "Side box".
- [1] digitised copy of the book hosted at the Biodiversity Heritage Library