The Jesuits, the Padroado and East Asian science (1552-1773) /
At the end of the 15th century, Portugal was given the oversight (Padroado) of all Catholic missions in Asia. The Society of Jesus played a major role in this enterprise of evangelization, which in Jesuit hands led to the transmission of major elements of European mathematical sciences to East Asia....
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
World Scientific,
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