The monkey and the inkpot : natural history and its transformations in early modern China /

The monkey and the inkpot : natural history and its transformations in early modern China /

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"This is the story of a Chinese doctor, his book, and the creatures that danced within its pages. The Monkey and the Inkpot introduces natural history in sixteenth-century China through the iconic Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518-1593)." "The encyclopedic...

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Main Author: Nappi, Carla Suzan, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Li, Shizhen, > 1518-1593. > Ben cao gang mu.
Li, Shizhen, > 1518-1593 > Influence.
Li, Shizhen, > 1518-1593.
Ben cao gang mu (Li, Shizhen)
China > Zusammenstellung
960-1644
Geschichte 1500-1600
Natural history > China > History.
Medicine, Chinese > History > 16th century.
Naturalists > China > Biography.
Physicians > China > Biography.
Scholars > China > Biography.
Learning and scholarship > China > History > 16th century.
China > Intellectual life > 960-1644.
Biographies
History
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