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Biography. Scholar of botany and folk history; resident in London 1892-98, and visited the Museum frequently, becoming friends with AW Franks (q.v.), Sir Robert K. Douglas (of the Dept of Oriental Printed Books) and Charles H. Read (q.v.); he helped catalogue the Asian books and manuscripts of the Library and conducted historical research on ...
Aug 24, 2021 · Science Heroes: Minakata Kumagusu. Transport yourself to the mountainous region of Kumano forest in Japan; a place where spirituality and nature perfectly align. A place of spiritual pilgrimage and scientific study. This is the birthplace of Minakata Kumagusu, ecologist, conservationist, folklorist, philosopher, ethnologist, … the list goes on.
Mar 14, 2019 · Kumagusu’s main argument in pointing out the problems embedded in science and its approach could mainly be found in his correspondences with a Shingon school Buddhist priest D ogi Hōryu 土宜法龍 (Minakata 2010: 14), 4 which began in 1893 and lasted till 1922, a year before Hōryu passed away (Minakata 2010: 359). 5 Their key discussions regarding science are contained in their correspondences from quite an early stage during the period from 1893 to 1916. In those letters, Kumagusu ...
Jan 28, 2018 · Minakata: Japan's pioneer of ecology. In an old black-and-white photograph on show at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Minakata Kumagusu — with a shaved head and dressed only in ...
Minakata Kumagusu (1867–1941) left Japan for the United States in 1886, at the age of nineteen. After living in Michigan and Florida for four years (including a short stay in Cuba), he moved to London in 1892, when he was twenty-five. He remained in the English capital for eight years until September 1900, when he ended his fifteen years abroad, mostly for financial reasons.
WITH regard to the questions asked by “M. A. B.” about the grouping of stars into constellations (NATURE, August 17), I venture to answer the last two, which the limited knowledge of an ...
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