Matteo Ricci : a Jesuit in the Ming Court /
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeablebiography of this fascinating and influential...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Jesuit and mathematics
- In the East
- The difficulty of learning Chinese
- The man from the West
- The pride of Li Madou
- The meeting of Confucius and Euclid
- Metamorphosis into Mandarin
- The strength of friendship
- To Beijing!
- Heated disputes and science lessons
- Prisoner of the eunuch
- In the heart of the empire
- The empty throne
- The lord of heaven
- Doctor Paul
- Euclid becomes Chinese
- The open door
- After Matteo Ricci : the scientific legacy, triumph and persecution.