At the end of the 15th century, Portugal was given the oversight (Padroado) of all Catholic missions in Asia. The Society of Jesus played a major role in this enterprise of evangelization, which in Jesuit hands led to the transmission of major elements of European mathematical sciences to East Asia. The essays in this volume present important new data and analysis on the extent to and ways in which Jesuit scientific culture and Portuguese policies regarding education, trade and mission shaped the reception of "Western learning" in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam in the early modern period.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers of the history of science, particularly East Asian science and Eastern and Western science relations, researchers on the history of the Society of Jesus.
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Höhe: 231 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-981-277-125-4 (9789812771254)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The Macau College of the Jesuits as a Meeting Point of the European, Chinese, and Japanese Mathematical Traditions (U Baldini); The Jesuit Mathematicians of the Portuguese Assistancy and the Portuguese Historians of Mathematics (1819-1940) (L Saraiva); The Transmission of Western Cosmology to 16th-Century Japan (H Ryuki); A Neo-Confucian Response to Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in 17th-Century China: Fang Yizhi and Jie Xuan on Western Learning (J-T Lim); The Contents and Context of Manuel Dias' Tianwen Lue (H Leitao); The Textual Tradition and Reception of Manuel Dias' Tianwen Lue (R Magone); Tome Pereira, Musician and Interpreter at the Kangxi Court: Portuguese Interests and the Transmission of Science (C Jami); The Yuzhi Lixiang Kaocheng Houbian in Korea (Y Shi); Traditional Vietnamese Astronomy in Accounts of Jesuit Missionaries (A Volkov).
