Making the new world their own : : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / / by Qiong Zhang.
Saved in:
Superior document: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 15 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. 2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
Volume 15. |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (455 pages) :; illustrations. |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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.