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Horseshoe Crab, Tachypleus gigas
Georg Eberhard Rumphius1705
Museums Victoria
Carlton, Australia
Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus gigas) from "D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer" (The Ambonese curiosity cabinet) by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, 1705. Page 22, Plate 12.
Georg Eberhard Rumpf (Rumphius in Latin), 1627-1702, was a merchant for the Dutch East India Company on the island of Ambon, now part of Indonesia. Despite being blind, Rumpf assembled and classified an extraordinary collection of plants and animals using his own system of classification. D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer was published in Amsterdam three years after his death.
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- Title: Horseshoe Crab, Tachypleus gigas
- Creator: Georg Eberhard Rumphius
- Date: 1705
- Date Created: 1705
- Rights: Copyright expired. Source: Museum Victoria / Artist: Georg Eberhard Rumphius
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