Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2Condition: NewEAN: 9780520291966ISBN: 9780520291966Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/22/2016Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 36mmAuthor: Paul D. Buell, Hua LinfuContributor: Paul U. Unschuld (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Geographical and Administrative DesignationsISBN-10: 0520291964Description: 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 second book in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2,158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and use of pharmaceutical substances.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: MedicineTopic: Language & Reference, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2
Publication Name: Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2
Title: Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2
EAN: 9780520291966
ISBN: 9780520291966
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 11/22/2016
Release Year: 2016
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 36mm
Author: Hua Linfu
Contributor: Paul U. Unschuld (Edited by)
Language: English
Subtitle: Geographical and Administrative Designations
ISBN-10: 0520291964
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Medicine
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
