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The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)
Alexander J. P. Raat
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A Personal History of a Dutch Virtuoso
出版Uitgeverij Verloren, 2010
ISBN97890870415199087041519
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=a2ymsrpA-iMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"The life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten" details his personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem - to this day a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's documents show us a virtuoso: a connoisseur and dilettante in natural philosophy. They give us a unique glimpse of his character and qualities, but also of his asthmatic sufferings and use of opium. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, take us from the early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic to the exotic Dutch East Indies and from there to the cosmopolitan London of the latter part of the century.