Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / by Qiong Zhang.

By: Zhang, Qiong, 1964- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: History of science and medicine libraryScientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 15.Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004284388Subject(s): Jesuits -- Missions -- China -- History -- 17th century | Science -- China -- History -- 17th century | Cosmology, Chinese -- History -- 17th century | Cartography -- China -- History -- 17th century | Geography -- China -- History -- 17th century | East and West -- History -- 17th century | Scholars -- China -- History -- 17th century | Jesuit scientists -- China -- History -- 17th century | Intercultural communication -- China -- History -- 17th century | China -- Intellectual life -- 17th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery.DDC classification: 509.51/09032 LOC classification: Q127.C5 | .Z436 2015Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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