The Doomed Blind Botanist Who Brought Poetry to Plant Description...
German naturalist Georg Everhard Rumpf joined the... ...tropical plants, despite a life full of calamity. Rumphius went blind. Then his wife and two of his daughter... ...krupt. His reconstructed manuscripts were stolen. Rumphius reconstructed them again, and the Dutch East Indi... ...he soldiered on.In setti...
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