@article{1478851,
      recid = {1478851},
      author = {Nappi, Carla,},
      title = {The Monkey and the Inkpot : Natural History and Its  Transformations in Early Modern China /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This is the story of a Chinese doctor, his book, and the  creatures that danced within its pages. The Monkey and the  Inkpot introduces natural history in sixteenth-century  China through the iconic Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia  medica) of Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593). In the first  book-length study in English of Li's text, Carla Nappi  reveals a "cabinet of curiosities" of gems, beasts, and  oddities whose author was devoted to using natural history  to guide the application of natural and artificial objects  as medical drugs.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478851},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054356},
}