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AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in Practical Fishkeeping April 2018

Posted on 20th February 201820th February 2018 by Timataquaticallatin

News – AQUATICAL•LATIN, the book, featured in the April edition of Practical Fishkeeping magazine.

Many thanks to Nathan Hill for the review below.

Practical Fishkeeping is the UK’s Number 1 fishkeeping magazine.

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New from Aquatical Latin…

  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – site updated to cover both Tim’s Fiction and Non-Fiction books 24th February 2026
  • New on AQUATICAL•LATIN – Index of Common Names 27th February 2018
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in Practical Fishkeeping April 2018 20th February 2018
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN featured in DIVER magazine Feb 2018 13th February 2018
  • Book Launch featured on Lichfield Live 15th December 2017

Contents

  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – the Book
    • AQUATICAL•LATIN Vol 1 – Index of Common Names
  • Fiction
    • About the Author…
    • About the Book…
    • About the Title…
    • How it Came to Be…
    • Links…
    • Miscellaneous
    • News…
    • Tim’s Musings…
  • Site Map
  • Welcome to AQUATICAL•LATIN
  • Latin & Greek – English Lexicon.
    • An introduction to the ancient Greek alphabet.
    • Words relating to number or quantity.
    • Colour terms.
    • Words relating to markings
      • Lines and stripes
      • Spots and blotches
    • Suffixes
    • Geographical epithets
    • Eponyms
    • Scientific Terms
  • AQUATICAL•LATIN – the online etymology
  • This Day In History

This Day In History

1666 François Valentijn (1666 - 1727) was born on this day. He was a Dutch minister and naturalist, best known as author of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (Old and New East-india). Valentijn worked in the Moluccas 1685-94 and then in East Java 1706-1714. On his return to Holland he wrote Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (1724-26) a history of the Dutch East India Company and the Far East, a work of five parts published in eight volumes and containing over one thousand engraved illustrations and some of the most accurate maps of the Indies of the time. Comprising geographical, ethnological, and natural history descriptions of the Moluccas it remains a major source for historical studies on the Dutch East Indies and especially for the natural history of the area, much of which was by Rumphius whose work has otherwise been lost. A separate volume on Rumphius' sea flora and fauna was published in 1758.
Valentijn is honoured in the name of the fish species, Canthigaster valentini.

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