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18th CENTURY BATAVIA

Climate observations by Carl Peter Thunberg


TYPE:Image
DATE:18th May 1775
ARTIST:Unknown
AUTHOR:Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) & Viveka Hansen
COLLECTION(S):Image. Wellcome Library. L0038152.
REFERENCE(S):• Hansen, Viveka, Textilia Linnaeana – Global 18th Century Textile Traditions & Trade, London 2017 (p. 263).
ADDED:04/08/2020
iFELLOW:Viveka Hansen
JOURNALS ETC: Linnaeus Apostles Global Science & Adventure, Volume 6, Page 229
CONTENT: Carl Peter Thunberg who travelled for nine years during the 1770s in Europe, Africa and Asia, complained no more than the other seventeen Apostles of Carl Linnaeus, but in his journal from Batavia (Jakarta) in May 1775 Thunberg wrote: ‘Although the heat, as appears from Fahrenheit’s thermometer, which generally stands between eighty and eighty-six degrees, is not so very intense, it is nevertheless exceedingly troublesome and disagreeable; first, from the situation of the town which lies low near the waterside, and then, in consequence of the exhalations from the sea and bogs stagnating in the air, and from their being little or no wind to disperse these vapours and purify the atmosphere ...’ Such circumstances are reflected in this somewhat earlier copperplate (1744-46), from ‘The Tygers street canal in Batavia’ where the buildings are located close to the river and many of the pictured individuals appear to be dressed or wrapped in thin fabrics.
GEO-LOCATION:WGS84(-6.33281, 106.87381)




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