Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

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Why Is Jean-Baptiste Tavernier Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668. In 1675, Tavernier, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier .

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What Are Jean-Baptiste Tavernier's Academic Contributions?

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier has made the following academic contributions:

• Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier