Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China 豆 0.0分

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作者：Florence C. Hsia

出版社：University of Chicago Press

出版日期：2009-01

ISBN：9780226355597

文件格式： pdf

标签： 历史 海外中国研究 STS Jesuits 英语学术类书籍 科学史 明清史 敘述ImperialChina

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Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Magisterially correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Wester...