On their own terms science in China, 1550 - 1900

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...

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1. Verfasser: Elman, Benjamin A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass., London Harvard University Press 2005
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Zusammenfassung: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.
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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XXXVIII, 567 S.
Ill., Kt.
25 cm
ISBN:0674016858
0-674-01685-8