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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Table of Contents:
- The Jesuit mathematicians of the Portuguese Assistancy and the Portuguese historians of mathematics (1819-1940) / Luis Manuel Ribeiro Saraiva
- The Jesuit College in Macao as a meeting point of the European, Chinese and Japanese mathematical traditions. Some remarks on the present state of research, mainly concerning sources (16th-17th centuries) / Ugo Baldini
- The transmission of Western cosmology to 16th century Japan / Hiraoka Ryuji
- The contents and context of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlue / Henrique Leitao
- The textual tradition of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlue / Rui Magone
- Restoring the unity of the world: Fang Yizhi and Jie Xuan's responses to Aristotelian natural philosophy / Lim Jongtae
- Traditional Vietnamese astronomy in accounts of Jesuit missionaries / Alexei Volkov
- Tome Pereira (1645-1708), clockmaker, musician and interpreter at the Kangxi Court: Portuguese interests and the transmission of science / Catherine Jami
- The Yuzhi lixiang kaocheng houbian in Korea / Shi Yunli