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Ordering the Myriad Things

- From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China
Af: Nicholas K. Menzies Engelsk Paperback

Ordering the Myriad Things

- From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China
Af: Nicholas K. Menzies Engelsk Paperback
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Winner of the 2024 SHNH Natural History Book Prize (The John Thackray Medal)

An exploration of plant wisdom, from the Southern Mountain Tea Flower to the Dawn Redwood

China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by keen observers of nature. Until the late nineteenth century, however, standard practice did not include deploying a set of diagnostic tools using a common terminology and methodology to identify and describe new and unknown species or properties.

Ordering the Myriad Things relates how traditional knowledge of plants in China gave way to scientific botany between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, when plants came to be understood in a hierarchy of taxonomic relationships to other plants and within a broader ecological context. This shift not only expanded the universe of plants beyond the familiar to encompass unknown species and geographies but fueled a new knowledge of China itself. Nicholas K. Menzies highlights the importance of botanical illustration as a tool for recording nature—contrasting how images of plants were used in the past to the conventions of scientific drawing and investigating the transition of “traditional” systems of organization, classification, observation, and description to “modern” ones.

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Winner of the 2024 SHNH Natural History Book Prize (The John Thackray Medal)

An exploration of plant wisdom, from the Southern Mountain Tea Flower to the Dawn Redwood

China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by keen observers of nature. Until the late nineteenth century, however, standard practice did not include deploying a set of diagnostic tools using a common terminology and methodology to identify and describe new and unknown species or properties.

Ordering the Myriad Things relates how traditional knowledge of plants in China gave way to scientific botany between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, when plants came to be understood in a hierarchy of taxonomic relationships to other plants and within a broader ecological context. This shift not only expanded the universe of plants beyond the familiar to encompass unknown species and geographies but fueled a new knowledge of China itself. Nicholas K. Menzies highlights the importance of botanical illustration as a tool for recording nature—contrasting how images of plants were used in the past to the conventions of scientific drawing and investigating the transition of “traditional” systems of organization, classification, observation, and description to “modern” ones.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 312
ISBN-13: 9780295749464
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0295749466
Kategori: China
Udg. Dato: 24 nov 2021
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 153mm
Forlag: University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato: 24 nov 2021
Forfatter(e): Nicholas K. Menzies
Forfatter(e) Nicholas K. Menzies

Kategori China

ISBN-13 9780295749464

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 312

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 153mm

Udg. Dato 24 nov 2021

Oplagsdato 24 nov 2021

Forlag University of Washington Press

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