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Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015

1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9789004284388 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9789004284371

Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, ISSN 2352-1325 ; Volume 15

Print version: Zhang, Qiong, 1964- Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery. Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, c2015 xx, 435 pages Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions ; Volume 15 ISBN 9789004284371

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Globalization, localization, and cultural resilience -- Mapping a contact zone -- Divergent discourses on the physical earth in premodern China -- The introduction and refashioning of the terraqueous globe -- Translating the four seas across space and time -- Taking in a new world -- Conclusion: Jesuit science and the shape of Chinese early modernity.

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