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On the study and value of Chinese botanical works : with notes on the history of plants and geographical botany from Chinese sources /

Year: 1871

Type: book

Abstract: The object of the following pages is to show in what manner the Chinese treat natural science and specially botany, and what advantage can be drawn by Euro- pean savants from the study of Chinese botanical works.As the principal works of the Chinese on Natural History have properly a medical bearing, I shall in criticising those works, occasionally make a few remarks also on Chinese therapeu- tics.Finally, I intend to give some characteristic specimens of Chinese descriptions of plants and add also a few

Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)

DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.137100

Authors: E. Bretschneider, Qijun Wu

Language: English

Topic: History of Science and Natural History

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W584484977

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