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Imagined Civilizations : China, the West, and Their First Encounter.

Author: Roger Hart
Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2014. ©2013
Edition/Format:  eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor.
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Genre/Form: History
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Roger Hart
ISBN: 9781421407128 1421407124
OCLC Number: 958055684
Description: 1 Online-Ressource
Contents: 1. Introduction2. Science as the Measure of Civilizations3. From Copula to Incommensurable Worlds4. Mathematical Texts in Historical Context5. Tracing Practices Purloined by the Three Pillars6. Xu Guangqi, Grand Guardian7. ConclusionsAcknowledgmentsAppendix A: Zhu Zaiyu's New Theory of CalculationAppendix B: Xu Guangqi's Right Triangles, MeaningsAppendix C: Xu Guangqi's WritingsBibliographyIndex

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