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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 4, Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach 🔍
Joseph Needham; Wang Ling; Francesca Bray; Christian Daniels; Nicholas K Menzies; H T Huang; Lu, Gwei-djen.; Nathan Sivin; Georges Métailie Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing), Cambridge :, 197-? - 2015
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This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of botanical knowledge in China from ancient times to the end of the seventeenth century. In this highly illustrated study, Georges Metailie explores the perception and use of a wealth of plants and vegetation in China before the introduction of modern botany. Drawing from a number of original Chinese texts, which have been translated for the first time, Metailie gives new insights into a variety of aspects of plant knowledge in ancient China. Chapters are devoted to traditional botany and sources of classification, aquatic plants, fungi, horticultural techniques, fruit production, grafting and the influences of ancient Chinese plant culture on Europe. This volume combines technical expertise in the identification of plants with historical and anthropological sensitivity to propose a new, non-teleological view of scientific knowledge about the botanical world in ancient China."
Alternative title
Biology and biological technology. Part IV, Traditional botany: an ethnobotanical approach
Alternative title
Science and civilisation in China = 中國科學技術史
Alternative author
Joseph Needham; Georges Métailié; Janet Lloyd
Alternative author
Métailie, Georges, author
Alternative author
Joseph Needham, 1900-1995
Alternative author
Georges Metailie
Alternative publisher
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Alternative edition
United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
Alternative edition
Bilingual, PS, 2015
Alternative edition
Cambridge, 1984-
Alternative edition
Volume 6, 2015
Alternative description
This highly illustrated volume offers a comprehensive account of botanical knowledge in China before the introduction of modern botany. Georges Metailie explores the perception and use of a wealth of plants in China until the end of the seventeenth century, proposing a new, non-teleological view of knowledge in ancient China.
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xli, 748 pages : 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 670-711) and index
date open sourced
2024-07-01
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