Science and Civilisation in China
Subtitle: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology; Part 1, Botany
Contributors: Huang Hsing-Tsung (Contributor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 31, 1986
Language: eng; chi
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 756
ISBN-13: 9780521087315
Subjects: History of science; History; Biology (General); Botany (General); Technology; Science/Mathematics; Science; General; Science - China - History; Technology / General; China; Civilization; Science and civilization
First sentence: 'Botany', wrote the famous missionary S. Wells Williams in 1841, 'in the scientific sense of the word, is wholly unknown to the Chinese.'