Engelbert Kaempfer, Genemon Imamura and the origin of the name Ginkgo

Taxon ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiyuki Nagata ◽  
Ashley DuVal ◽  
Peter R. Crane
Keyword(s):  
Engelbert Kaempfer

Engelbert Kaempfer and the Myth of the Scythian Lamb

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Robert W. Carrubba
Keyword(s):  
Engelbert Kaempfer

Kaempfer and Thai history: the documents behind the printed texts

1989 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-80
Author(s):  
B.J. Terwiel
Keyword(s):  
Engelbert Kaempfer

The 39-year old Engelbert Kaempfer sighted the Siamese coast on 1 June 1690, and on 7 June his ship entered the river Chao Phraya, and reached the Dutch residence “Amsterdam”. Three days later he arrived in the Thai capital, Ayutthaya. Almost a month later, on 4 July, Kaempfer's boat began its journey downriver, spending some days loading goods at “Amsterdam”, and on 10 July he left Siamese territory, continuing his journey to Japan.

Kaempferol: a case study of what eponyms in chemical nomenclature can tell us

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Organic Compound ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
Chemical Nomenclature ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Kaempferia Galanga ◽  
Natural Scientists ◽  
Engelbert Kaempfer

Personal names (eponyms) of real or fictitious people can be found both in botanical and zoological nomenclature ever since Linnaeus's reform efforts (and earlier too) – yet they were never uncontroversial. The same applies for scientific chemical nomenclature where the situation is more complex because besides systematic names, semi-systematic, and even non-scientific (trivial) names such as Glauber's salt or ammonia (both derived from eponyms), are officially accepted. One of the semi-systematic names is kaempferol, the designation of a natural dyestuff (flavonoid) that occurs in numerous plants, among them Kaempferia galanga. The course of the discovery and name-giving process for this organic compound is traced, elucidating that not only Engelbert Kaempfer was involved, but a whole series of natural scientists.

The manuscript maps of Engelbert Kaempfer

Imago Mundi ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Margarete Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Engelbert Kaempfer
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