"The Conference "History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia IV " took place at the Friendship Hotel, Beijing, from 6 to 8 November 2008"--Acknowledgements.

I. Portugal and the Jesuit missions in Asia. Portugal and the Jesuit mission to China: trends in historiography / Rui Magone. Evangelization, politics, and technology transfer in 17th-century Cochinchina: the case of Joao da Cruz / Alexei Volkov -- II. The Jesuits and the knowledge of China in Europe. The Jesuits and their study of Chinese astronomy and chronology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Han Qi. The Jesuit Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot and Chinese music in the eighteenth century / Nii Yoko -- III. Tomas Pereira (1646-1708). Some data on Tomas Pereira's (Xu Risheng) biography and manuscripts / Isabel Pina. Pereira's trip to Tartary in 1685 / Davor Antonucci. Thomas Pereira and the knowledge of Western music in the 17th and 18th centuries in China / Wang Bing and Manuel Serrano Pinto. Pereira's musical heritage as context for his contributions in China / Joyce Lindorff -- IV. New sources on Western science at the Chinese Emperor's Court. Verbiest's manuscripts on astronomy and mechanics (1676): from Beijing to Moscow and Constantinople / Noel Golvers and Efthymios Nicolaidis. Manchu manuscripts on mathematics in the Toyo Bunko, the State Library of Inner Mongolia and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France / Junsei Watanabe. The new thermometer and a slice of experimental philosophy in the early Qing court / Shi Yunli -- V. Missionaries in Beijing during the reigns of Kangxi and Yongzheng. Karel Slavicek and his scientific works in China / Liu Dun. Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714): chronologist, linguist, and "casual" scientist / Ugo Baldini. "Western astronomy vs. Korean geography": intellectual exchanges between a Korean and the Jesuits as seen from Yi Kiji's 1720 Beijing Travelogue / Lim Jongtae.

Missionaries, and in particular the Portuguese Assistancy of the Society of Jesus, played a fundamental role in the dissemination of Western scientific knowledge in East Asia. They also brought to Europe a deeper knowledge of Asian countries. This volume brings together a series of essays analyzing important new data on this significant scientific and cultural exchange, including several in-depth discussions of new sources relevant to Jesuit scientific activities at the Chinese Emperor's Court. It includes major contributions examining various case studies that range from the work of some individual missionaries (Karel Slavicek, Guillaume Bonjour) in Beijing during the reigns of Kangxi and Yongzheng to the cultural exchange between a Korean envoy and the Beijing Jesuits during the early 18th century. Focusing in particular on the relationship between science and the arts, this volume also features articles pertaining to the historical contributions made by Tomas Pereira and Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot, to the exchange of musical knowledge between China and Europe.

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"This book explores the interaction between Europe and East Asia between the 16th and 18th centuries in the field of mathematical sciences, bringing to the fore the role of Portugal as an agent of transmission of European science to East Asia. It is an important contribution to understanding this fundamental period of scientific history, beginning with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India in 1498 and ending with the expulsion of the Society of Jesus from Portugal in 1759."

Macau: an intercultural frontier in the Ming period / Luís Filipe Barreto -- Survey and study of pre-1900 Chinese maps seen in Europe / Li Xiaocong -- Western knowledge of geography reflected in Juan Cobo's Shilu (1593) / Liu Dun -- The continuing influence of the Portuguese: "A new interpretation of world geography" / Wang Qianjin -- Teachers of mathematics in China: the Jesuits and their textbooks (1580-1723) / Catherine Jami -- News from China in sixteenth century Europe: the Portuguese connection / Rui Loureiro -- The Indianization of Spain in the 16th century / Juan Gil -- Jesuit observations and star-mappings in Beijing as the transmission of scientific knowledge / Keizo Hashimoto -- The compilation of the Lixiang Kaocheng houbian, its origin, sources, and social context / Han Qi -- A Japanese reaction to Aristotelian cosmology / Tadashi Yoshida -- Portugal and Korea: obscure connections in the pre-modern sciences before 1900 / Park Seong-Rae -- Translations of Portuguese texts into Konkani and Konkani compositions into Portuguese, with educational influence on literature and art and the transfer of technology / Joseph Velinkar.

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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' Tianwenlüe / Henrique Leitao -- The textual tradition of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlüe / 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 -- Tomé 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.

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. The essays in this volume present important new data and analysis on the extent to and ways in which Jesuit scientific culture and Portuguese policies regarding education, trade and mission shaped the reception of "Western learning" in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam in the early modern period.

Includes bibliographical references.

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