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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.
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- Author : Carla Nappi
- Release : 15 February 2010
- Publisher : Harvard University Press
- ISBN : 9780674054356
- Genre : Uncategoriezed
- Total Page : 251 pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 19,5 Mb
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