Science and Civilisation in China, Part 4, Traditional Botany: An - Ethnobotanical Approac

A comprehensive, highly illustrated study of botany in ancient China through to the end of the seventeenth century.

List of contents

List of abbreviations; Series editor's preface; Author's note; 1. Sources of traditional botany and the various classifications; 2. The description and illustration of plants; 3. Knowledge of plant life; 4. Horticulture and its techniques; 5. Plants and botanical exchanges. The Chinese contribution to the rest of the world; 6. Conclusion; Bibliographies; Index.

About the author

Georges Métailié is Emeritus Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research, and member of the Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France. Beginning with the study of ancient Chinese botanical knowledge, he is now mainly working on the comparative study of the history of knowledge about plants and animals in China and Japan since the sixteenth century. For more than twenty years, he has been lecturing at the National Museum for Natural History in Paris in the field of ethnobotany. He is an honorary fellow of the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK, a foreign member of the Washington Academy of Sciences, USA, and received, in 2006, with Francine Fèvre, the Auguste Chevalier Award of the Académie des Sciences in Paris, France.

Summary

This highly illustrated volume offers a comprehensive account of botanical knowledge in China before the introduction of modern botany. Georges Métailié 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.

Product details

• Authors: Georges Metailie, Georges Métailié, Metailie Georges
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107109872
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10987-2
• No. of pages: 788
• Series: Science and Civilisation in China; Science and Civilisation in China; Science and Civilisation in Ch
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Botanik und Pflanzenwissenschaften, Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, HISTORY / Asia / China, History of Science, Biology, life sciences, Asian History