Herbalism and Mineralogy in Edo Period Based on the Mineral Collection and Related Documents by Philip Franz von Siebold

19世纪上半叶收集的日本矿物标本保存在荷兰莱顿的国家自然历史博物馆。德国医生菲利普·弗朗茨·冯·西博尔德作为荷兰东印度军队的荷兰外科医生收集了这些标本。就现代日本矿物学而言，这些标本非常独特。在西博尔德之前，矿物学在日本并不被视为科学领域，而是草药学的一部分。西博尔德的矿物收藏对19世纪上半叶日本科学的历史研究非常重要。通过追踪每个标本，我们可以发现现代矿物学是如何作为科学介绍给日本人的。通过对标本的矿物学考察和对西博尔德收集和标记的历史考察，可以看出西博尔德和伯格是如何收集和整理标本的，以及当时欧洲和日本矿物学的某些方面。这个收藏是他的书《日本石印》的原始资料。

Japanese mineral specimens collected during the first half of the nineteenth century are stored in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, the Netherlands. A German medical doctor, Philipp Franz von Siebold, collected these specimens as a Dutch surgeon of Dutch East India Army. These specimens are highly unique in terms of modern Japanese mineralogy. Before Siebold, mineralogy was not considered as a field of science in Japan but a part of herbalism. Siebold's mineral collection is important to the historical investigation of science in Japan during the first half of the nineteenth century. Tracing each specimen, we could uncover how modern mineralogy was introduced to Japanese people as science. The mineralogical investigations of specimens along with historical investigation of Siebold's collecting and labeling show how Siebold and Burger collected and sorted out the collection as well as some aspects of mineralogy of Europe and Japan at that time. This collection was the original resource for his book "Lapidographia Japonica."