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Ordering the myriad things : from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China /
"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 inve...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Culture, place, and nature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 illustration
- Spaces for communicating and informing
- Museums, exhibitions, and botanical gardens
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood.