CONTENTS

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. MAPS XI
4. FIGURES XIII
5. TABLES XVI
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XVII
7. PREFACE XIX
8. CHAPTER 1: FOLKLORE AND OBSERVATIONS TO THE ADVENT OF SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY 1
9. CHAPTER 2: BIOLOGY, DISTRIBUTION, AND ECOLOGY 23
10. CHAPTER 3: THE MOST ANCIENT EAST 42
11. CHAPTER 4: THE CLASSICAL WORLD: GREEKS AND ROMANS AND THEIR EASTERN NEIGHBORS 80
12. CHAPTER 5: THE ARABO-PERSIAN WORLD, SEVENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES 105
13. CHAPTER 6: INDIA 152
14. CHAPTER 7: THE CHINESE WORLD 192
15. CHAPTER 8: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD 250
16. CHAPTER 9: THE AGE OF DISCOVERIES: THE OLD WORLD 276
17. CHAPTER 10: THE AGE OF DISCOVERIES: THE NEW WORLD 292
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED 347
19. INDICES 407