Science and Civilisation in China, Part 4, Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach
(Book #6.4 in the Science and Civilisation in China Series)
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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 M taili 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, M taili 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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1107109876
ISBN13:9781107109872
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:788 Pages
Weight:3.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.9" x 7.8" x 9.8"
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