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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Zhang, Qiong, 1964- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden : Brill, [2015]
Collection:History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 15.
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