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The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan( )
Author: Marcon, Federico
Series title:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Ser.
ISBN:978-0-226-25190-5
Publication Date:Jul 2015
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $74.95
Book Description:

From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century Japan saw the creation, development, and apparent disappearance of the field of natural history, or honzogaku. Federico Marcon traces the changing views of the natural environment that accompanied its development by surveying the ideas and practices deployed by honzogaku practitioners and by vividly reconstructing the social forces that affected them. These include a burgeoning publishing industry, increased...
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Book Details
Pages:392
Detailed Subjects: Nature / General
Science / General
History / Asia / Japan
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.61 x 2.31 x 0.29 cm
Book Weight:0.712 Kilograms



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