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Author Zhang, Qiong, 1964- author.

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

Publication Info. Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.
2015

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Description 1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, 2352-1325 ; Volume 15
History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject 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 century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Zhang, Qiong, 1964- Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery. Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, c2015 xx, 435 pages Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions ; Volume 15 9789004284371 2015003481
ISBN 9789004284371
9789004284388 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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