ISBN:
0674016858
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXVIII, 567 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
25 cm
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Elman, Benjamin A. On Their Own Terms
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Elman, Benjamin A., 1946 - On Their Own Terms
DDC:
509/.51
Keywords:
Science History 16th century
;
Science History 17th century
;
Science History 18th century
;
Science History 19th century
;
China
;
Wissenschaft
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Astronomie
;
Kartografie
;
Kalenderreform
;
Jesuiten
;
Geschichte 1550-1800
;
China
;
Angewandte Wissenschaften
;
Wissenschaftlichkeit
;
Medizin
;
Mathematik
;
Mission
;
Geschichte 1840-1900
;
China
;
Hunderttagereform
Abstract:
Ming classification on the eve of Jesuit contact -- The Late Ming calendar crisis and Gregorian reform -- Sino-Jesuit accommodations during the seventeenth century -- The limits of Western learning in the early eighteenth century -- The Jesuit role as experts in high Qing cartography and technology -- Evidential research and the restoration of ancient learning -- Seeking the truth and high Qing mathematics -- Protestants, education, and modern science to 1880 -- The construction of modern science in late Qing China -- Government arsenals, science, and technology in China after 1860 -- Displacement of traditional Chinese science and medicine in the twentieth century
Description / Table of Contents:
Ming classification on the eve of Jesuit contact -- The Late Ming calendar crisis and Gregorian reform -- Sino-Jesuit accommodations during the seventeenth century -- The limits of Western learning in the early eighteenth century -- The Jesuit role as experts in high Qing cartography and technology -- Evidential research and the restoration of ancient learning -- Seeking the truth and high Qing mathematics -- Protestants, education, and modern science to 1880 -- The construction of modern science in late Qing China -- Government arsenals, science, and technology in China after 1860 -- Displacement of traditional Chinese science and medicine in the twentieth century.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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