Ferdinand Verbiest S J 1623 1688 And The Chinese Heaven
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Ferdinand Verbiest S J 1623 1688 And The Chinese Heaven
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Author : Noël Golvers
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2003
Ferdinand Verbiest S J 1623 1688 And The Chinese Heaven written by Noël Golvers and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book describes more than 220 copies of various astronomical publications by the missionary Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) sent from Peking.
Letters Of A Peking Jesuit
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Author : Ferdinand Verbiest
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Letters Of A Peking Jesuit written by Ferdinand Verbiest and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Astronomers categories.
Together with Verbiest?s printed works, this correspondence is the most direct witness of his rich life and activities (1623-1688). It covers the 43 years between his first application for the Indies (1645) and his farewell to the Kangxi Emperor (28.01.1688). Side by side with the copies of his astronomical drawings and eclipse maps, inventoried in 'F. Verbiest and the Chinese Heaven' (2003), these letters reveal a wide-ranging network of contacts, within China and with Europe. The topics are as many and various as the 55 correspondents are different, spanning the whole spectrum from the Jesuits in Moscow to Pedro II in Lisbon, from the Franciscans in Shandong to Pope Innocentius XI and the Cardinals of CPF in Rome. The topics are related to his successive positions in the Jesuit hierarchy in China, his work as an engineer and ?astronomer? for the Court and his international diplomatic interventions, with the Jesuit mission in China as the central argument. This edition of 134 letters from and to Verbiest replaces that of Henri Bosmans (1938). It is a critical revision of the formerly known 80 items, with a restitution of the original Chinese transcriptions, all extended with 54 new items, mostly from the Ajuda archives (Lisbon), the latter putting especially the Chinese scene in the focus. Two major documents are added (dated 1661 and 1681), which reflect his talents as a polemic writer; also in various other letters he unfolds scriptorial talents, combined to a sharp sense of observation.
China On Paper
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Author : Marcia Reed
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2011
China On Paper written by Marcia Reed and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art categories.
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007 to Feb. 10, 2008.
Europe And China
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Author : Luis Saraiva
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2013
Europe And China written by Luis Saraiva and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Mathematics categories.
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 Slav cek, 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 Tomis Pereira and Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot, to the exchange of musical knowledge between China and Europe.
The Globalization Of Renaissance Art
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Author : Daniel Savoy
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-12-11
The Globalization Of Renaissance Art written by Daniel Savoy and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-11 with Art categories.
An interdisciplinary group of scholars evaluates the global discourse on Early Modern European art.
Qing Encounters
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Author : Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Qing Encounters written by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Art categories.
Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the contact between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures’ visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople on both continents borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex new creations. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, Qing Encounters offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period.
Astronomy And Calendars The Other Chinese Mathematics
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Author : Jean-Claude Martzloff
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-01
Astronomy And Calendars The Other Chinese Mathematics written by Jean-Claude Martzloff and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with Mathematics categories.
Presented from the viewpoint of the history of mathematics, this book explores both epistemological aspects of Chinese traditional mathematical astronomy and lunisolar calendrical calculations. The following issues are addressed: (1) connections with non-Chinese cultural areas; (2) the possibility or impossibility of using mathematics to predict astronomical phenomena, a question that was constantly raised by the Chinese from antiquity through medieval times; (3) the modes of representation of numbers, and in particular the zero, found in the context of Chinese calendrical calculations; and (4) a detailed analysis of lunisolar calendrical calculations. Fully worked-out examples and comparisons between the results of calculations and the content of Chinese historical calendars from various periods are provided. Traditional Chinese calendrical and mathematical astronomy consists of permanently reformed mathematical procedures designed to predict, but not explain, phenomena pertaining to astronomy and related areas. Yet, despite appearances, models of the mathematical techniques hidden behind this voluminous corpus reveal that they depend on a limited number of clear-cut mathematical structures. Although only a small fraction of these techniques have been fully studied, what is known surprisingly broadens our knowledge of the history of Chinese mathematics. Sinologists interested in the history of Chinese science, and anyone interested in the history of Chinese mathematics, the Chinese calendar, and the history of Chinese mathematical astronomy from its origin (104 BC) to its European reform (AD 1644) will find this book very useful. The present English language edition is a fully revised and updated version of the French original. Even though this is a research monograph in sinology, no particular sinological background is required, although a basic understanding of ‘concrete mathematics’ is needed. From the reviews of the French edition: This is a demanding, rigorous book to read ... worth the concentrated study it requires. The rewards are not only in the details but in the general overview that ...[it] provides. Joseph Dauben, EASTM, 2011 ...first Work in a Western language to turn to for anyone interested in the details of Chinese calendrical computations. Benno Van Dalen, ISIS, 2011 Martzloff’s careful scholarship and his overall look at the calendar beyond astronomical calculations, ..., make this book a most valuable contributions to a field of increasing interest. U. D’Ambrosio, Mathematical Reviews, 2013
The Cambridge Encyclopedia Of The Jesuits
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Author : Armstrong, Megan and Corkery, James , SJ, and Fleming, Alison and Worcester, Thomas SJ Prieto, Andrés Ignacio Shea, Henry , SJ
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia Of The Jesuits written by Armstrong, Megan and Corkery, James , SJ, and Fleming, Alison and Worcester, Thomas SJ Prieto, Andrés Ignacio Shea, Henry , SJ 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 with categories.
The Emperor S New Mathematics
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Author : Catherine Jami
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012
The Emperor S New Mathematics written by Catherine Jami and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Jami explores how the emperor Kangxi solidified the Qing dynasty in 17th-century China through the appropriation of the 'Western learning', and especially the mathematics, of Jesuit missionaries. This text details not only the history of mathematical ideas, but also their political and cultural impact.
On Their Own Terms
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Author : Benjamin A. Elman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
On Their Own Terms written by Benjamin A. Elman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.