Making the New World Their Own - Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery

Making the New World Their Own offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with the Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century.

About the author

Qiong Zhang, Ph. D. (1996, Harvard) teaches at Wake Forest University. Her research intersects with late imperial Chinese intellectual and cultural history and the history of the Jesuit mission in China. She has published many articles in these areas.

Product details

• Authors: Qiong Zhang
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2015
• EAN: 9789004284371
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28437-1
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 244 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 757 g
• Series: Scientific and Learned Culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous