Making the new world their own : : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / / by Qiong Zhang.
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 formed...
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Superior document: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 15 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
Volume 15. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (455 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Zhang, Qiong, 1964- [ VerfasserIn ]
Published: 2015.
Superior document: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 15
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Published: 2015.
Superior document: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 15