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    Engelbert Kaempfer (16 September 1651 – 2 November 1716) from Lemgo, was a German naturalist, physician, explorer, and writer known for his tour of Russia...
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    pronunciation /ˈɡɪŋkɡoʊ/ is also documented in some dictionaries. Engelbert Kaempfer first introduced the spelling ginkgo in his book Amoenitatum Exoticarum...
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    recorded by Engelbert Kaempfer in 1690 after he sailed reached to Siam in reign of King Phetracha of Ayutthaya Kingdom, Engelbert Kaempfer handwrote of...
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    festivities at the Suwa-Shrine under escort. Sometimes physicians such as Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold were called to...
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    canna) was a false Japanese syllabary reported by the German traveller Engelbert Kaempfer in his book Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi...
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    pronunciation /ˈɡɪŋkɡoʊ/ is also documented in some dictionaries. Engelbert Kaempfer first introduced the spelling ginkgo in his book Amoenitatum Exoticarum...
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    14 April 2018. Engelbert Kaempfer, John Gaspar Scheuchzer and Sir Hans Sloane. (1727). De beschryving van Japan. Door ENGELBERT KÆMPFER, M.D. Geneesheer...
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    while translating the works of the 17th-century German traveller Engelbert Kaempfer namely, his book, 'the history of Japan', posthumously released in...
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    formed by the severed petiole bases. The German scholar and physician Engelbert Kaempfer accompanied an embassy to Persia in 1683 with the intention of locating...
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    literature. The only reason Camellia japonica got its name was that Engelbert Kaempfer was one of the first Europeans to give a description of the plant...
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