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    Regnerus Bontius (1576–1623), court physician to Maurice of Nassau, and Willem de Bondt / Wilhelmus Bontius, law professor at Leiden University. Jacobus graduated...
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    Kloppenburg-Versteegh. One of the first European physicians to study jamu was Jacobus Bontius (Jacob de Bondt), who was a physician in Batavia (present-day Jakarta)...
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    printed attestation of the word for the apes is in Dutch physician Jacobus Bontius' 1631 Historiae naturalis et medicae Indiae orientalis. He reported...
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    the local Malay name being recorded in Java by the Dutch physician Jacobus Bontius. In 1641, the Dutch anatomist Nicolaes Tulp applied the name to a chimpanzee...
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    who.int. Retrieved 1 February 2023. "All Entries by BONDT, Jacob de, Jacobus Bontius: HistoryofMedicine.com". www.historyofmedicine.com. Retrieved 2019-07-23...
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    Naturalists like Hendrik van Rheede, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, and Jacobus Bontius compiled data about eastern plants on behalf of the Europeans. Though...
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  • mathematician Jacobus Bisschop (1658–1697), Dutch painter Jacobus Cornelis Bloem (1825–1902), Dutch Minister of Finance Jacobus Bontius (1592–1631), Dutch...
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  • deficiency of vitamin B1. First seen in 1642 by the Dutch physician Jacobus Bontius, it was named for the Sinhalese word meaning weakness-weakness. Beriberi...
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    genus Homo in Systema Naturae based on a figure and description by Jacobus Bontius from a 1658 publication: Homo troglodytes ("caveman") and published...
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    including those by Juan Fragoso, Nicolas Monardes, Hendrik van Rheede and Jacobus Bontius. The "Jardim Garcia de Orta", a public garden in Lisbon, as well the...
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