Ordering the myriad things : from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China / Nicholas K....
Ordering the myriad things : from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China / Nicholas K....
Ordering the myriad things : from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China / Nicholas K. Menzies.
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Seattle : University of Washington, [2021]
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G 2021/2393
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English
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xx, 288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
How the southern mountain tea flower became Camellia reticulata -- The historical context of an epistemic transition -- Nature, the myriad things, and their investigation -- A new language to name and describe plants -- Observing nature, practicing science -- The inventory of nature -- Botanical ill...
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Seattle : University of Washington, [2021]
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Washington (State)
Date Published
[2021]
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"English-language literature on the history of science is still stubbornly Euro-centric, and international scholarly discourse has engaged insufficiently with Chinese resources that document sophisticated premodern knowledge of the natural world. The case of botany is especially useful for investigating "traditional" systems of organization, classi...
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Ordering the myriad things : from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China / Nicholas K. Menzies.
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Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and environment
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-270) and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/2393
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74VKaXK6Bmxb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaXK6Bmxb
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0295749458
9780295749457
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581.951
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991024434628402626
