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History Of Mathematical Sciences : Portugal And East Asia Ii - Scientific Practices And The Portuguese Expansion In Asia (1498-1759).
This book explores the interaction between Europe and East Asia between the 16th and the 18th centuries in the field of mathematical sciences, bringing to the fore the role of Portugal as an agent of transmission of European science to East Asia. It is an important contribution to understanding this...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Acknowledgements; Foreword Luis Saraiva; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Macau: An Intercultural Frontier in the Ming Period Luis Filipe Barreto; Survey and Study of pre-1900 Chinese Maps seen in Europe Li Xiaocong; Western Knowledge of Geography Reflected in Juan Cobo's Shilu (1593) Liu Dun; The Continuing Influence of the Portuguese: "A New Interpretation of World Geography" Wang Qianjin; Teachers of Mathematics in China: the Jesuits and their Textbooks (1580-1723) Catherine Jami; News from China in Sixteenth Century Europe: the Portuguese Connection Rui Loureiro.
- The Indianization of Spain in the 16th Century Juan GilJesuit Observations and Star-Mappings in Beijing as the Transmission of Scientific Knowledge Keizo Hashimoto; The Compilation of the Lixiung Kuochenghoubiun, its Origin, Sources, and Social Context Han Qi; A Japanese Reaction to Aristotelian Cosmology Tadashi Yoshida; Portugal and Korea: Obscure Connections in the Pre-Modern Sciences Before 1900 Park Seong-Rae.