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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
v. 15. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.