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

by Federico Marcon

Book Overview

Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system (called honzogaku) that rivaled Western science in complexity--and then seemingly disappeared. Or did it? In The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022647903X
• ISBN13: 9780226479033
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"