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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
[2015]
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Collection: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
v. 15. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |