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The Monkey and the Inkpot
Harvard University Press, 2009 Cloth: 978-0-674-03529-4 | eISBN: 978-0-674-05435-6 Library of Congress Classification QH21.C6N37 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 508.0951
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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). In the first book-length study in English of Li's text, Carla Nappi reveals a "cabinet of curiosities" of gems, beasts, and oddities whose author was devoted to using natural history to guide the application of natural and artificial objects as medical drugs. See other books on: 16th century | Learning and scholarship | Naturalists | Physicians | Scholars See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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The Monkey and the Inkpot
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Harvard University Press, 2009
Cloth: 978-0-674-03529-4
eISBN: 978-0-674-05435-6
Cloth: 978-0-674-03529-4
eISBN: 978-0-674-05435-6
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). In the first book-length study in English of Li's text, Carla Nappi reveals a "cabinet of curiosities" of gems, beasts, and oddities whose author was devoted to using natural history to guide the application of natural and artificial objects as medical drugs.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
