Sojourners in a strange land : Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China /
Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfull...
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Chicago ; London :
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2009
Chicago : [2011] |
| Series: | Science and Its Conceptual Foundations S
Science and Its Conceptual Foundations S |
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