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Museum Richterianum continens fossilia animalia vegetabilia mar[ina]

Johann Ernst HebenstreitJohann Friedrich Christ

出版	Excudi curavit Casparus Fritzsch, 1743
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nCrCdoZ0E4sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

Johann Ernst Hebenstreit was born into a poor family in Neustadt, Germany in 1702. As a youth he developed an interest in natural science and mineralogy. He studied at the university in Jena, Germany, then entered the University of Leipzig in 1723, eventually becoming a Professor of Medicine there in 1730. Hebenstreit published a treatise on minerals of pharmacological value that same year, and also published on such natural history subjects as fish, insect, plants and anatomy. On the strength of these publications he was invited by Johann Christoph Richter (1689-1751), a wealthy banker and member of the legislature in Leipzig, to help curate Richter's mineral collection and prepare a book describing it. Thus in 1742, Hebenstreit's Museum Richterianum appeared, with a thorough and well-organized text illustrated by hand-coloured engravings of 114 mineral specimens from Richter's collection.