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ebl-840	Anderson, Eugene N.	Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 6, Biology and Biological Technology. Part IV: Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach. By Georges Métailié. Translated by Janet Lloyd. 2015. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 748 pp.	2017	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1964	120	59	He confines his attention to premodern China— Georges Métailié’s long-awaited monograph on the history of Chinese plant science is now available at last. Chinese plant knowledge before that date was very comparable to Europe’s: it consisted of a great deal of empirical knowledge—factual or fantasy— recorded in long herbals that copied extensively from sources going back to ancient times (Theophrastus in Europe, Han Dynasty writers in China).	cache/ebl-840.pdf	txt/ebl-840.txt