Needham Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China Vol. 6 Biology and Biological Technology - Part 4 Traditional Botany - An Ethnobotanical Approach 2015 [pdf 788sc 748c. 28.73mb] 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 Métailié 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, Métailié 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.

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Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach (SCC Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 4)

Science and civilisation in China = 中國科學技術史

Joseph Needham; Wang Ling; Francesca Bray; Christian Daniels; Nicholas K Menzies; H T Huang; Lu, Gwei-djen.; Nathan Sivin; Georges Métailie

Joseph Needham; Georges Métailié; Janet Lloyd

Joseph Needham, 1900-1995

Georges Metailie

Science and Civilisation in China, 6-4, 1, 2015

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Cambridge :, 197-? - 2015

Bilingual, PS, 2015

Cambridge, 1984-

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements for Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Series Editor’s Preface
Author’s Note
38 (2) TRADITIONAL BOTANY: AN ETHNOBOTANICAL APPROACH
Introduction
(f) The sources of traditional botany and the various classifications
(1) Texts of an encyclopaedic nature
(2) The development of the various classifications
i From the archaic period to the Song dynasty
ii The Ming and Qing dynasties: works of materia medica
iii The Ming and Qing dynasties: horticultural and agricultural texts
iv The Ming and Qing dynasties: texts of an encyclopaedic nature
v The Ming and Qing dynasties: notes by literati
vi Plant classifications: an attempt at a synthesis
(g) The description and illustration of plants
(1) The canonical state of description: the Er ya and the Shuo wen pie zi
(2) Exotic monographs
(3) The description and illustration of plants under the Song
(4) The description and illustration of plants under the Ming
(5 ) An original example of a traditional botanist Cheng Yaotian
(6 ) The case of tong trees
(h) Knowledge of plant life
(1) The perception of plant life
i Fundamental ideas
ii Plants soil and climate
iii Plants and time
iv Plants and regions
v Plants and minerals: plants that indicate minerals
vi Plants and minerals: plants that are sources of minerals
vi Plants and minerals: reciprocal actions
vii Relations between plants
ix Plants and humans
x The properties of plants
xi Attempts at synthesis: plant life
xii Conceptions of the global functioning of plants
xiii Conclusion
xiv An external but close view: Kaibara Ekiken
(2) On the sex of plants
i A historical reminder
ii The Chinese view
iii The case of hemp
iv Other sexualised grasses
v The sex of trees
(3) Parasitism and the epiphytic condition
(4) Aquatic plants
i Water grasses
ii Algae
(5) Fungi
i Prologue
ii Sources
iii Treatises
iv Toxicity
v The characteristics of mushrooms
vi An attempt at determination
(i) Horticulture and its techniques
(1) Prologue
(2) Treatises on horticulture
(3) Gardens
i Definitions
ii A glimpse of the great parks of antiquity
iii Literati and plants
(4) Fruit production
i A glimpse of origins
ii The improvement of quality and productivity
iii The preservation and transformation of fruits
(5) Grafting and vegetative propagation
(j) Plants and botanical exchanges: the Chinese contribution to the rest of the world
(1) Plant transmissions and exchanges of knowledge
i Plants introduced into China
ii The diffusion of Chinese botanical knowledge to Japan
iii The discovery of Chinese flora by westerners
(2) The influence of Chinese gardens on Europe
i Paper gardens: the basic texts
ii Chinese plants in Europe
(k) Conclusion
(1) The Zhi wu ming shi tu kao
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
A Chinese and Japanese books before 1800
B Chinese and Japanese books and journal articles since 1800
C Books and journal articles in Western languages
GENERAL INDEX

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."

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.

2021-08-09