Early European Researches the Flora of China
- ISBN-10
- 1330150147
- ISBN-13
- 9781330150146
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 202
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-24
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- E. Bretschneider
Description
Excerpt from Early European Researches the Flora of China It is proposed in the following pages to give a sketch of early botanical researches in China by European naturalists and at the same time to rescue from oblivion some curious ancient documents showing the early attempts to illustrate the botanical features of the Middle Kingdom. I have thought that a critical review of these accounts in the light of modern science and a republication of some of them, which I found hidden in ancient periodicals, now little known and difficult of access, would prove of some interest and be even practically useful to collectors of Chinese plants and writers on the same subject. Although many of the celebrated Chinese vegetable productions are mentioned in the book of Marco Polo and by other European medieval travellers in China, I do not intend to trace our early acquaintance with Chinese plants back as far as the middle ages. In my investigations I shall start from that period when these regions became first known to us through the learned and hard-working Jesuit missionaries, the illustrious pioneers of Oriental studies in the far East. On the other side, I shall not extend the area of my researches beyond the Linnean period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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