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The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949The Caterpillar Fungus Teases

The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949: The Caterpillar Fungus Teases [This chapter investigates how the caterpillar fungus was perceived and studied with exotic eyes. Special attention goes to relevant scientific practice, intellectual networks and cognitive changes. The caterpillar fungus maintained its attractiveness during scientific demystification of its perceived marvellousness, and mediated some geographical and medicinal knowledge which at times combined with European taxonomy and nomenclature. The Japanese critical reflection on this organism and other morphologically similar species found in Japan embodies the influence of both modern science and Chinese natural knowledge in a new cultural, scientific, linguistic and environmental milieu.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949The Caterpillar Fungus Teases

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Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
ISBN
978-3-031-24722-4
Pages
159 –215
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-24723-1_4
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Abstract

[This chapter investigates how the caterpillar fungus was perceived and studied with exotic eyes. Special attention goes to relevant scientific practice, intellectual networks and cognitive changes. The caterpillar fungus maintained its attractiveness during scientific demystification of its perceived marvellousness, and mediated some geographical and medicinal knowledge which at times combined with European taxonomy and nomenclature. The Japanese critical reflection on this organism and other morphologically similar species found in Japan embodies the influence of both modern science and Chinese natural knowledge in a new cultural, scientific, linguistic and environmental milieu.]

Published: Feb 8, 2023

Keywords: René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur; Miles J. Berkeley; Objectivity; Homoeopathy; Entomology; Mycology

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