Author: Rheede, Henrick
Title: Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Amsterdam, 1678
Call #: QK358 . R42
Illustration: Solitary Fishtail Palm
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 17th-century visual culture
- The pedagogical purposes of illustration
- Illustration and the visual appeal of the exotic
- Illustration providing information regarding botany, details of plant life in different phases of growth, flowering
- Illustration providing information regarding early exploration, especially of India, Burma (powers of observation, objects being sought, observed)
- Text providing information regarding early medicine, search for cures
