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Georg Eberhard Rumphius
Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1628-1702), the "blind seer of Ambon", was a German-Dutch botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company. He is best known for his authorship of Herbarium Amboinensis, a catalogue of the plants of the island of Ambon (then in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia), published posthumously in 1741.
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