During the seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company employees often made it their task to collect rare exotic plants in the colonies that reachlied the botanical gardens in their native country and from there, the rest of the world. One of them was Willem ten Rhijne, a doctor and botanist, who acquired plants not only for the garden in Amsterdam but also for the scientist Jacob Breyne, a citizen of Gdańsk. A fracture of their correspondence is kept in the Gotha research library, encompassing five letters from Ten Rhijne, written between 1680 and 1686. Those documents draw attention to the titular kundige inlanders, indigenous experts on botany. Analyzing these documents, this article argues that indigenous scientific systems influenced the works of Breyne to a retraceable extent but also emphasizes that their impact was heavily mediated by his and Ten Rhijne's understanding of themselves as European scientists and the latter's association with the company.

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Kundige inlanders – 对 Jacob Breyne (1637–1697) 作品的土著贡献

在 17 世纪，荷兰东印度公司的员工经常将在到达其祖国植物园的殖民地以及从那里收集到世界其他地方的稀有外来植物作为他们的任务。其中一位是医生和植物学家 Willem ten Rhijne，他不仅为阿姆斯特丹的花园而且还为格但斯克公民雅各布·布雷恩 (Jacob Breyne) 购买了植物。他们的通信碎片保存在哥达研究图书馆中，其中包括 1680 年至 1686 年间写于十莱茵 (Ten Rhijne) 的五封信件。这些文件引起了人们对名副其实的 kundige 内陆人、植物学土著专家的关注。分析这些文件，