Georges Metailie

Gebundenes Buch

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

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Science and Civilisation in China
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 788
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 192mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1668g
• ISBN-13: 9781107109872
• ISBN-10: 1107109876
• Artikelnr.: 42487888