The Jesuits, the Padroado and East Asian science (1552-1773) /

At the end of the 15th century, Portugal was given the oversight (Padroado) of all Catholic missions in Asia. The Society of Jesus played a major role in this enterprise of evangelization, which in Jesuit hands led to the transmission of major elements of European mathematical sciences to East Asia....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Conference "History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia III" University of Tokyo
Otros Autores: Saraiva, Luís, Jami, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2008.
Temas:
Jesuits > Education > East Asia > Congresses.
Jesuits.
Mathematics > East Asia > History > Congresses.
Mathematics > Portugal > History > Congresses.
Mathématiques > Portugal > Histoire > Congrès.
MATHEMATICS > History & Philosophy.
Education.
Intellectual life > Western influences.
Mathematics.
East Asia > Intellectual life > Western influences > History > Congresses.
East Asia.
Portugal.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Jesuit mathematicians of the Portuguese Assistancy and the Portuguese historians of mathematics (1819-1940) / Luis Manuel Ribeiro Saraiva
  • The Jesuit College in Macao as a meeting point of the European, Chinese and Japanese mathematical traditions. Some remarks on the present state of research, mainly concerning sources (16th-17th centuries) / Ugo Baldini
  • The transmission of Western cosmology to 16th century Japan / Hiraoka Ryuji
  • The contents and context of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlue / Henrique Leitao
  • The textual tradition of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlue / Rui Magone
  • Restoring the unity of the world: Fang Yizhi and Jie Xuan's responses to Aristotelian natural philosophy / Lim Jongtae
  • Traditional Vietnamese astronomy in accounts of Jesuit missionaries / Alexei Volkov
  • Tome Pereira (1645-1708), clockmaker, musician and interpreter at the Kangxi Court: Portuguese interests and the transmission of science / Catherine Jami
  • The Yuzhi lixiang kaocheng houbian in Korea / Shi Yunli.

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