Engelbert Kaempfer: Exotic Pleasures: Fascicle III, Curious Scientific and Medical Observations

by Englebert Kaempfer

This intriguing book is the definitive English translation of a mainstay of the Latin-based culture of the Renaissance.

Engelbert Kaempfer, referred to as "the Humboldt of the seventeenth century," was a German scholar and physician who devoted an entire decade to cultural and scientific explorations. Beginning in 1683 with his departure from Sweden, where he took a position as secretary to the Swedish Embassy, and ending with his arrival...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809319764
• ISBN13: 9780809319763
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"