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His work of 1661 foliosheets were shipped to the Republic with the ship "Waterland", but all got lost during a sea battle near "Bordeaux". However, Johannes Camphuys, had during his life made copies of Rumphius work, and therefore it took so long in between to publish all the work of Rumphius. Your questions: 1) Rumphius was working for the VOC as a military engineer, and I don't know if his work had been used in VOC journals. These are not published as far as I know, and to do some more research one need to have lots of time and also visit The Hague, were the journals are stored (as far as I know). Also it is a kind of old dutch languague, which doesn't make it easy to read. But it must be clear for everybody that Rumphius had the VOC mentality, and his work probably went much further as a VOC journal. 2) I have no idea. In his same work, where Rumphius is quoting about gold and silver tests. Again the VOC journals are many and one need to have lots of time to research them all, and find all information about suassa if there is any. 3) I will have to research Rumphius article more intensively. Now to me also questions arise: Do you have such old information written about gold, that this had been preferred over suassa considering its talismanic aspects? Or is it for collectors assumably because more gold is found instead of suassa? I came across a source, Rumphius, thanks to Loedjoe, that it was (and if this information is right or not can not be hunt down because of the big timespan I'm afraid). You are asking me for more sources, which possibly is impossible to find without doing lots of research. But I didn't have found one of the same age which is telling gold had been preferred over suassa. Last edited by Maurice; 27th December 2015 at 12:16 PM. |
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