Euclid In China
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Euclid In China
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Author : Peter M. Engelfriet
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1998
Euclid In China written by Peter M. Engelfriet and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Mathematics categories.
As part of the Jesuits' programme of introduction to European culture, in 1607 the Elements of Euclid (d.300 B C) were translated for the first time into Chinese. The translation of this epoch-making ancient Greek textbook on deductive geometry meant a confrontation of contemporary Chinese and European cultures. This work explores in depth and at various levels the circumstances and mechanisms that shaped the transmission of a key work of science from one language and cultural context onto another. Consequently it offers often surprising insights into the ways of intercultural exchange and misunderstandings.
Euclid In China
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Author : Peter M. Engelfriet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Euclid In China written by Peter M. Engelfriet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Geometry categories.
Euclid In China
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Author : Engelfriet
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-01
Euclid In China written by Engelfriet and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-01 with History categories.
As part of the Jesuits' programme of introduction to European culture, in 1607 the Elements of Euclid (± 300 BC) were translated for the first time into Chinese. The translation of this epoch-making ancient Greek textbook on deductive geometry meant a confrontation of contemporary Chinese and European cultures. Part I of Peter Engelfriet's work deals mainly with the European and Chinese backgrounds, part II with linguistic and textual matters. In part III the manner in which learned Chinese tried to integrate this new knowledge into their own, Chinese, mathematical and cultural traditions comes to the fore. This fascinating work explores in depth and at various levels the circumstances and mechanisms that shaped the transmission of a key work of science from one language and cultural context onto another. Consequently it offers often surprising insights into the ways of intercultural exchange and misunderstandings.
Euclid In China
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Author : Peter M. Engelfriet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Euclid In China written by Peter M. Engelfriet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
Architecture Of Modern China
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Author : Jianfei Zhu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Architecture Of Modern China written by Jianfei Zhu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Architecture categories.
A collection of essays on architecture of modern China, arranged chronologically covering a period from 1729 to 2008, focusing mainly on the twentieth century. The distinctive feature of this book is a blending of ‘critical’ and ‘historical’ research, taking a long-range perspective transcending the current scene and the Maoist period. This is a short, elegant book that condenses the wide subject matter into key topics.
Translation A Multidisciplinary Approach
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Author : J. House
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-11
Translation A Multidisciplinary Approach written by J. House and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process.
Christian Heretics In Late Imperial China
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Author : Lars Peter Laamann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Christian Heretics In Late Imperial China written by Lars Peter Laamann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.
Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian communities to become self-reliant in perpetuating the basic principles of their faith. Left to their own devices, the missionary seed developed into a panoply of indigenous traditions, with Christian ancestry as the common denominator. Christianity thus underwent the same process of inculturation as previous religious traditions in China, such as Buddhism and Judaism. As the guardian of orthodox morality, the prosecuting state sought to exercise all-pervading control over popular thoughts and social functions. Filling the gap within the discourse of Christianity in China and also as part of the wider analysis of religion in late Imperial China, this study presents the campaigns against Christians during this period as part and parcel of the campaign against 'heresy' and 'heretical' movements in general.
Statecraft And Intellectual Renewal In Late Ming China
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Author : Catherine Jami
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-07-26
Statecraft And Intellectual Renewal In Late Ming China written by Catherine Jami and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-26 with History categories.
This is the first comprehensive work on one of the key figures in early Chinese-Western relations. Xu Guangqi was one of the first promoters of Western science in China, worked together with the Jesuit Matteo Ricci on translations of Western science, was one of the first Chinese converts, a high-ranking statesman, organizer of a major calendar reform, introduced Western weapons into the Chinese army, etc. etc. His astonishingly multifarious activities are now for the first time pieced together within their (Chinese and Western) social, intellectual and cultural context. The result is a composite profile of this complex figure that is solidly anchored in Chinese (and Western) primary sources A major achievement.
China And Maritime Europe 1500 1800
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Author : John E. Wills, Jr
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-31
China And Maritime Europe 1500 1800 written by John E. Wills, Jr and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-31 with History categories.
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the fullest and clearest available summaries, based on sources in Chinese and in European languages, making this information accessible to students and scholars interested in the growing connections among continents and civilizations in the early modern period.
Imagined Civilizations
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Author : Roger Hart
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Imagined Civilizations written by Roger Hart and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Mathematics categories.
Roger Hart debunks the long-held belief that linear algebra developed independently in the West. Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits portrayed themselves as wise men from the West who used mathematics and science in service of their mission. Chinese literati-official Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), who collaborated with the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) to translate Euclid’s Elements into Chinese, reportedly recognized the superiority of Western mathematics and science and converted to Christianity. Most narratives relegate Xu and the Chinese to subsidiary roles as the Jesuits' translators, followers, and converts. Imagined Civilizations tells the story from the Chinese point of view. Using Chinese primary sources, Roger Hart focuses in particular on Xu, who was in a position of considerable power over Ricci. The result is a perspective startlingly different from that found in previous studies. Hart analyzes Chinese mathematical treatises of the period, revealing that Xu and his collaborators could not have believed their declaration of the superiority of Western mathematics. Imagined Civilizations explains how Xu’s West served as a crucial resource. While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor.