China's transition to modernity : the new classical vision of Dai Zhen /
"The figure of Dai Zhen (1724-1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Multiple |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The man and his times
- How Jesuit science conquered the Kangxi court
- Searching for truth in the origins of civilizations
- How to build a coalition around science
- An outsider enters the mainstream
- How to dethrone Jesuit science
- Bringing it home to the palace of light
- Legibility of visionary scholars.