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:
“I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country’s God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)