The sixth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth and fifth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of biology and biological technology (which includes botany and agriculture, zoology, all aspects of medicine, and pharmaceutics).
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The sixth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth and fifth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of biology and biological technology (which includes botany and agriculture, zoology, all aspects of medicine, and pharmaceutics).
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'Botany', wrote the famous missionary S. Wells Williams in 1841, 'in the scientific sense of the word, is wholly unknown to the Chinese.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pharmaceutical natural history, pin tshao, thorny limebush, cinnamon soils, kan orange, orthographic primer, pharmaceutical natural histories, tshao literature, pesticidal plants, chhih chih, mulberry worm, hui khao, mulberry insect, phi tshao, ornamental flowering plants, tzu fang, pharmaceutical naturalists, thu chih, fragmentary reconstruction, san kuo, meadow soils, brown forest soils, plant nomenclature, shao yao, yang mei Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Shen Nung, Hsi Han, Tshao Ching, Chhen Jung, Thao Hung-Ching, Chu Hsiao, Nan Fang Tshao Mu Chuang, Thu Nung Yao Chih, Shih Ching, Book of Odes, Hsin Hsiu, Kuo Pho, Chiu Huang, Pin Ching, Chou Yao, Shuo Win, Chhien Han Shu, Kuan Tzu, Literary Expositor, Porter Smith, Han Yen-Chih, Chu Phu, Ouyang Hsiu, Chang Chhien, Shu Ching New!
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- Psychology and Religion: East and West by C. G. Jung in Front Matter, and page 446
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