François Valentyn
François Valentyn or
Valentijn (17 April 1666 – 6 August 1727) was a Dutch Calvinist minister,
naturalist and author whose ''Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën'' ("Old and New East-India") describes the history of the
Dutch East India Company while also making notes on geography, ethnography, and natural history; half is about the
Moluccas. The work is characterised by vanity, randomness, imbalance and the lack of systematics. Valentyn even used sources that he considered unreliable and some of his descriptions were considered far-fetched.
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