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Alternative names	Philippus Baelde; Philip Balde
Description	Dutch writer, pastor, geographer and missionary
Date of birth/death	1632	1672
Location of birth/death	Delft	Geervliet
Authority file	: Q1714282 VIAF: 56786314 ISNI: 0000000081360462 ULAN: 500354745 LCCN: n88139765 NLA: 61540568 WorldCat

Description

English: Philippus Baldaeus’s 17th-century account of Ceylon and the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of India included cultural as well as geographical information. His depictions of episodes from Hindu mythology were almost certainly based on Indian originals. Baldaeus spent the years 1658 to 1665 in Ceylon, and his extensive and factual account contributed to Europeans’ understanding that eastern civilizations had literary and iconographic traditions as complex and sophisticated as those of the western world. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (BALDAEUS, NAAUKEURIGE BESCHRYVINGE…, 1672

Date

1672

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http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200504/the.leek-green.sea.htm

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