Ordering the Myriad Things /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menzies, Nicholas K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plants > Identification.
HISTORY / Asia / China
Plants.
Botany.
Plants > Classification.
Botany > China > History.
China.
History.
Classification.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 illustration
  • Spaces for communicating and informing
  • Museums, exhibitions, and botanical gardens
  • Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood.

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