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Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery /

"In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the Earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zhang, Qiong, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, [2015]
Colección:History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.