Book ID: CBB917758554

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VIII: Clothes, Utensils, Worms, Insects, Amphibians, Animals with Scales, Animals with Shells (2021)

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Volume VIII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 38 through 46, devoted to clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, and animals with shells.The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.

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Authors & Contributors
Unschuld, Paul Ulrich
Li, Shizhen
Nappi, Carla Suzan
Nelson, E. Charles
Di, Lu
Endo, Jiro
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Korean Journal of Medical History
Historical Archaeology
Publishers
University of California Press
Princeton University
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Harvard University Press
Princeton University Press
University of Washington Press
Concepts
Materia medica
Medicine, Chinese traditional
Natural history
Encyclopedias (history)
Translations
Animals
People
Li, Shizhen
Hoefnagel, Joris
Louis XIV, King of France
Time Periods
16th century
18th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
17th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
China
Virginia (U.S.)
Tibet
France
Japan
Netherlands
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Paris. Jardin Royal des Plantes
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