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<blockquote data-quote="Björn Bergenholtz" data-source="post: 3952113" data-attributes="member: 113430"><p>Thanks Jan and Laurent, and fair enough; even I suspected that <em>Mehlschwalbe</em>, or even <em>Meelzwaluw</em> (regardless if neither German nor/resp. Dutch) probably couldn't have much to do with <em>melba</em>/<em>Melba</em>, but I simply had to ask, as we have the privilege of having some fluent Dutch-speakers in "the BirdForum Crew" ...</p><p></p><p>However, here's another try, a (tiny bit) more well-founded, a somewhat more serious approach (I hope, thus not simply a useless speculation/guess, as in my latest post), even if, and this I have to admit, I don't understand much of what's told in the following texts/links ... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>See Scheuchzer's Theological (all Latin) Work <em>Physica sacra </em>[1731-1735], Tomus III (1733), left column (<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/207384#page/487/mode/1up" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>, alt. <a href="https://archive.org/details/physicasacra00sche_1/page/761" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>), about Nature in Biblical context:</p><p></p><p>Or <a href="https://books.google.se/books?id=545YAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA287&lpg=PA287&dq=Scheuchzer+%22Meluba%22&source=bl&ots=MDfdlUE1Mp&sig=ACfU3U3v2LXdlb2lxOnEd_lvvvdHJTMzKg&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjuoJmI_5TnAhVPwsQBHWbBBcEQ6AEwAHoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=Scheuchzer%20%22Meluba%22&f=false" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>, in a Dutch version (possibly somewhat easier to read, at least for you guys, but equally impossible to understand for me):</p><p></p><p><em>Google translate</em>: "... <em>Melba</em>; which word is made of <em>Meluba</em>. ..." <strong>?!?</strong></p><p></p><p>Remember that Linnaeus was Son of a Priest, and that he himself originally was aimed for Theology (prior to his focus on Botany and Biology), and as such I would expect that he was perfectly aware of, and had read, Scheuchzer's <em>Physica sacra</em>.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully of some relevance/help?</p><p></p><p>/B</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Björn Bergenholtz, post: 3952113, member: 113430"] Thanks Jan and Laurent, and fair enough; even I suspected that [I]Mehlschwalbe[/I], or even [I]Meelzwaluw[/I] (regardless if neither German nor/resp. Dutch) probably couldn't have much to do with [I]melba[/I]/[I]Melba[/I], but I simply had to ask, as we have the privilege of having some fluent Dutch-speakers in "the BirdForum Crew" ... However, here's another try, a (tiny bit) more well-founded, a somewhat more serious approach (I hope, thus not simply a useless speculation/guess, as in my latest post), even if, and this I have to admit, I don't understand much of what's told in the following texts/links ... ;) See Scheuchzer's Theological (all Latin) Work [I]Physica sacra [/I][1731-1735], Tomus III (1733), left column ([URL="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/207384#page/487/mode/1up"][U]here[/U][/URL], alt. [URL="https://archive.org/details/physicasacra00sche_1/page/761"][U]here[/U][/URL]), about Nature in Biblical context: Or [URL="https://books.google.se/books?id=545YAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA287&lpg=PA287&dq=Scheuchzer+%22Meluba%22&source=bl&ots=MDfdlUE1Mp&sig=ACfU3U3v2LXdlb2lxOnEd_lvvvdHJTMzKg&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjuoJmI_5TnAhVPwsQBHWbBBcEQ6AEwAHoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=Scheuchzer%20%22Meluba%22&f=false"][U]here[/U][/URL], in a Dutch version (possibly somewhat easier to read, at least for you guys, but equally impossible to understand for me): [I]Google translate[/I]: "... [I]Melba[/I]; which word is made of [I]Meluba[/I]. ..." [B]?!?[/B] Remember that Linnaeus was Son of a Priest, and that he himself originally was aimed for Theology (prior to his focus on Botany and Biology), and as such I would expect that he was perfectly aware of, and had read, Scheuchzer's [I]Physica sacra[/I]. Hopefully of some relevance/help? /B [/QUOTE]
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