Influence
To this day, Dapper's book Description of Africa Naukeurige Beschrijvinge van Africa gewesten (1668) is a key text for Africanists.
In Amsterdam, the street Dapperstraat was named after him.
In Paris, the Musée Dapper was opened in 1986, named after Dapper. The Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans visited the museum and wrote a book on it with the title Het Evangelie van O. Dapper Dapper (1973).
Peter S. Beagle dedicated The Last Unicorn to Dr. Dapper for his reports of unicorns in Maine. In 2012, Beagle's wrote a fictional tale of Dapper's travels.
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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined.”
—John Abbott. The Mother at Home; or the Principles of Maternal Duty, John Abbott, Crocker and Brewster (1833)
“... so long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ... and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)