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Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2

Geographical and Administrative Designations

  • ISBN: 9780520291966
  • 2016, 466 pages

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The dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, was 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. It is the largest encyclopaedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works.
The books describe almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge.
Ben cao gang mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History

Author

Paul, D. Buell

Paul, D. Buell

Co-author of the Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2: Geographical and Administrative Designations.

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Hua Linfu

Hua Linfu

Hua Linfu is Professor at the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China. Paul D. Buell is an independent scholar living in Seattle, Washington.

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P.U. Unschuld

P.U. Unschuld

Prof. Dr. phil. Paul U. Unschuld ist Professor für Theorie, Geschichte und Ethik chinesischer Lebenswissenschaften sowie Direktor des 2006 gegründeten Horst-Görtz-Stiftungsinstituts im Centrum für Human- und Gesundheitswissenschaften der Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Von 1986 bis 2006 war er Vorstand des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Er studierte in…

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