@Book{1758659874, author="Menzies, Nicholas K.", title="Ordering the myriad things: from traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China", series="Culture, place, and nature studies in anthropology and environment", year="2021", publisher="University of Washington", address="Seattle", keywords="Botany; China; History; Plants; Identification; Classification; Pflanzen; Vegetation; Klassifikation; Klassieren; Botanik", abstract="How the southern mountain tea flower became Camellia reticulata -- The historical context of an epistemic transition -- Nature, the myriad things, and their investigation -- A new language to name and describe plants -- Observing nature, practicing science -- The inventory of nature -- Botanical illustration -- Spaces for communicating and informing -- Museums, exhibitions, and botanical gardens -- The dawn redwood, metasequoia glyptostroboides.", note="Nicholas K. Menzies", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", isbn="9780295749464", language="English" }