Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / by Qiong Zhang.
2015
Q127.C5 .Z436 2015eb
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Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / by Qiong Zhang.
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ISBN
9789004284371
9789004284388 (electronic book)
9789004284388 (electronic book)
Published
Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations.
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Q127.C5 .Z436 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
509.51/09032
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 15.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.