Europe and China : science and arts in the 17th and 18th centuries / edited by Luis M.R. Saraiva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saraiva, Luís.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--East Asia--History--Congresses.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--China--History--Congresses.

Mathematics--Portugal--History--Congresses.

History.

Portugal.

China.

East Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxx, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Science and arts in the 17th and 18th centuries

At head of title: History of mathematical sciences: Portugal and East Asia IV

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; London : World Scientific, [2012]

Summary:

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 Slavícek, 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 18

Contents:

I Portugal and the Jesuit missions in Asia

Portugal and the Jesuit mission to China: trends in historiography / Rui Magone Magone, Rui 3

Evangelization, politics, and technology transfer in 17th-century Cochinchina: the case of João da Cruz / Alexei Volkov Volkov, Alexei 31

II The Jesuits and the Knowledge of China in Europe

The Jesuits and their study of Chinese astronomy and chronology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Han Qi Qi, Han 71

The Jesuit Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot and Chinese music in the eighteenth century / NII Yoko Yoko, NII 81

III Tomás Pereira (1646-1708)

Some data on Tomás Pereira's (Xu Risheng $) biography and manuscripts / Isabel Pina Pina, Isabel 95

Pereira's trip to Tartary in 1685 / Davor Antonucci Antonucci, Davor 115

Thomas Pereira and the knowledge of Western music in the 17th and 18th centuries in China / Wang Bing Bing, Wang, Manuel Serrano Pinto Pinto, Manuel Serrano 135

Pereira's musical heritage as context for his contributions in China / Joyce Lindorff Lindorff, Joyce 153

IV New sources on Western science at the Chinese Emperor's Court

Verbiest's manuscripts on astronomy and mechanics (1676): from Beijing to Moscow and Constantinople / Noël Golvers Golvers, Noël, Efthymios Nicolaidis Nicolaidis, Efthymios 163

Manchu manuscripts on mathematics in the Tôyô Bunko, the State Library of Inner Mongolia and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France / Junsei Watanabe Watanabe, Junsei 185

The new thermometer and a slice of experimental philosophy in the early Qing court / Shi Yunli Yunli, Shi 203

V Missionaries in Beijing during the reigns of Kangxi and Yongzheng

Karel Slavícek and his scientific works in China / Liu Dun Dun, Liu 227

Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714): chronologist, linguist, and "casual" scientist / Ugo Baldini Baldini, Ugo 241

"Western astronomy vs. Korean geography": intellectual exchanges between a Korean and the Jesuits as seen from Yi Kiji's 1720 Beijing Travelogue / Lim Jongtae Jongtae, Lim 295.

Notes:

"The Conference "History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia IV " took place at the Friendship Hotel, Beijing, from 6 to 8 November 2008"--Ackl.

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9814390437

9789814390439

OCLC:

798412177

Publisher Number:

99952071780