9780520291973-0520291972-Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 3: Persons and Literary Sources

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 3: Persons and Literary Sources

ISBN-13: 9780520291973
ISBN-10: 0520291972
Edition: First Edition, Paul Unschuld, Series Editor
Author: Paul U. Unschuld, Paul D. Buell, Zheng Jinsheng, Nalini Kirk
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover 796 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520291973
ISBN-10: 0520291972
Edition: First Edition, Paul Unschuld, Series Editor
Author: Paul U. Unschuld, Paul D. Buell, Zheng Jinsheng, Nalini Kirk
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover 796 pages

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Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 3: Persons and Literary Sources (ISBN-13: 9780520291973 and ISBN-10: 0520291972), written by authors Paul U. Unschuld, Paul D. Buell, Zheng Jinsheng, Nalini Kirk, was published by University of California Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Dictionaries (Dictionaries & Thesauruses) books. You can easily purchase or rent Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 3: Persons and Literary Sources (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Dictionaries books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $19.85.

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The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This third book in a three-volume series offers detailed biographical data on all identifiable authors, patients, witnesses of therapies, transmitters of recipes, and further persons mentioned in the Ben cao gang mu and provides bibliographical data on all textual sources resorted to and quoted by Li Shizhen and his collaborators.

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