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Ordering the myriad things : from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menzies, Nicholas K. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
Subjects:
Botany > China > History.
Plants > Identification.
Plants > Classification.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.