Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / by Qiong Zhang.
Zhang, Qiong, 1964- author.
2015
Q127.C5 .Z436 2015eb
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Title Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / by Qiong Zhang.
Author Zhang, Qiong, 1964- author.
ISBN 9789004284371
9789004284388 (electronic book)
Published Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number Q127.C5 .Z436 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 509.51/09032
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 15.
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Introduction: Globalization, localization, and cultural resilience
Mapping a contact zone
Divergent discourses on the physical earth in premodern China
The introduction and refashioning of the terraqueous globe
Translating the four seas across space and time
Taking in a new world
Conclusion: Jesuit science and the shape of Chinese early modernity.

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