Missionaries, and in particular the Portuguese Assistancy of the Society of Jesus, played a fundamental role in the dissemination of Western scientific knowledge in East Asia. They also brought to Europe a deeper knowledge of Asian countries. This volume brings together a series of essays analyzing important new data on this significant scientific and cultural exchange, including several in-depth discussions of new sources relevant to Jesuit scientific activities at the Chinese Emperor's Court. It includes major contributions examining various case studies that range from the work of some individual missionaries (Karel Slavicek, Guillaume Bonjour) in Beijing during the reigns of Kangxi and Yongzheng to the cultural exchange between a Korean envoy and the Beijing Jesuits during the early 18th century. Focusing in particular on the relationship between science and the arts, this volume also features articles pertaining to the historical contributions made by Tomas Pereira and Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot, to the exchange of musical knowledge between China and Europe.
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Introduction (Luis Saraiva); Portugal and the Jesuit Mission to China: Trends in Historiography (Rui Magone); Evangelization, Politics, and Technology Transfer in the 17th Century Cochinchina, the Case of Joao da Cruz (Alexei Volkov); The Jesuits and their Study of Chinese Astronomy and Chronology in the 17th and 18th centuries (Han Qi); The Jesuit Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot and Chinese Music in the Eighteenth Century (Nii Yoko); Some data on Tomas Pereira's Biography and Manuscripts (Isabel Pina); Pereira's trip to Tartary in 1615 (Davor Antonucci); Thomas Pereira and the knowledge of Western music in the 17th and the 18th Centuries (Wang Bing & Manuel Serrano Pinto); Pereira's Musical Heritage as Context for His Contributions in China (Joyce Lindorff); Verbiest's manuscript on astronomy and mechanics (1676): From Beijing to Moscow and Constantinople (No?l Golvers and Efthymios Nicolaidis); Manchu manuscripts on Mathematics in the Toyo Bunko, the State Library of Inner Mongolia and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Junsei Watanabe); The New Thermometer and a Slice of Experimental Philosophy in the Early Qing Court (Yunli Shi); Karel Slavicek and His Scientific Works in China (Dun Liu).
