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Ordering the myriad things : from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China / Nicholas K. Menzies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menzies, Nicholas K., author.
- Series:
- Culture, place, and nature
- Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--China--History.
- Botany.
- Plants--Identification.
- Plants.
- Plants--Classification.
- History.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 288 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Menzies, Nicholas K. Ordering the myriad things
- ISBN:
- 0295749474
- 9780295749471
- Publisher Number:
- 40030786072
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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