Published: 2022-12-08

Jacob Breyne, his friends and the plants.

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska
The Quarterly of the History of Material Culture
Section: Studies and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM70.2022.3.002

Abstract

The article concerns the contact networks of the Gdańsk botanist Jacob Breyne and the naturalia, chiefly live and dried plants, as well as their narrative and visual representations (i.e. descriptions and illustrations), that were being sent from and to Gdańsk in the second half of the 17th c. Contact networks in which the author of the
Centuria participated are described based on the analysis of specialist literature, as well as the narrative, iconographic and material sources (the exsiccatae). In addition,
a set of Breyne’s dried specimens from James Petiver’s plant collection held in the Sloane Herbarium, now a part of the Natural History Museum in London collection, is presented in the Appendix.

Keywords:

botany, Polish Prussia, Gdańsk (Danzig), 17th–18th c., knowledge transfer, 17th c. -- Poland, 18th c. -- Poland

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Pękacka-Falkowska, K. (2022). Jacob Breyne, his friends and the plants.: Considerations on Breyne’s exsiccatae in James Petiver’s collection. The Quarterly of the History of Material Culture, 70(3), 287–331. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM70.2022.3.002

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