TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zhang,Qiong
TI  - Making the new world their own: Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery 
T2  - Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions,
AV  - Q127.C5 .Z436 2015
U1  - 509.51/09032 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Leiden, Netherlands, Boston, [Massachusetts]
PB  - Brill
KW  - Jesuits
KW  - Missions
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Science
KW  - Cosmology, Chinese
KW  - Cartography
KW  - Geography
KW  - East and West
KW  - Scholars
KW  - Jesuit scientists
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2063807
ER  -