File:Flora Sinensis - Sum Xu AND Tortoise.JPG
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English: One of the earliest natural history books about China, by the Polish Jesuit Michael Boym. (Obviously includes some non-Chinese {and non-floral} species). This page, unusually, shows a squirrel (松鼠, Songshu; Sum Xu in Boym's transcription) chasing a green-haired turtle (綠毛龜, Lü mao gui).
Boym said that Chinese domesticate Sum Xu, put silver collars on them, and that they hunt mice. Boym (mistakenly) translates 绿毛龟 as green-winged turtles. In the text he says that these rare creatures are green, and sometimes have blue (or dark green? cæruleas) wings attached to their legs; they move very slowly, but can sometimes jump, making use of their wings.Русский: Китайская белка гонится за зеленовласой (в китайском тексте) или зеленокрылой (в латинском) черепахой. Зарисовка польского иезуита Михала Бойма.
Latina: (Caption: 松鼠 - Súm Xú)
Sum Xu. (Caption: 绿毛龟 - Ló Mâe Quey - Vindium alarum Testudo) Français : Dans quelques prouinces de la Chine, principalement dans celle de Ho-nan, l'on y void des tortües vertes, qui ont quelquefois des ailes bleues à leurs pieds ; elles marchent fort lentement , mais elles s'aident en faisant quelques sauts & en estendant leurs ailes, les Chinois eftiment les pieds aîlés de ces
tortues à caufe de leur rareté. |
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| Source | Flora Sinensis at Bibliothèque Universtaire Moretus Plantin |
| Author | Michael Boym (Michał Piotr Boym) |
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Picture in Kircher's China illsustrata inspired by Boym's account of green-winged turtles:  |
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