The Jesuits, the Padroado and East Asian science (1552-1773) / Edited by Luís Saraiva and Catherine Jami 

 "The conference 'History of Mathematical Sciences:Portugal and East Asia III' took place at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komba Campus, from 4 to the 7 August 2005"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references.

"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."--BOOK JACKET. 

Table of contents: 

The Jesuit mathematicians of the Portuguese Assistancy and the Portuguese historians of mathematics (1819-1940)/ Luis Manuel Ribeiro SARAIVA 1

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 33

The transmission of Western cosmology to 16th century Japan / HIRAOKA Ryuji 81

The contents and context of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlüe / Henrique LEITAO 99

The textual tradition of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlüe 天問略 / Rui M AGONE 123

Restoring the unity of the world: Fang Yizhi and Jie Xuan's responses to Aristotelian natural philosophy / LIM Jongtae 139

Traditional Vietnamese astronomy in accounts of Jesuit missionaries / Alexei VOLKOV 161

Tomé Pereira (1645-1708), clockmaker, musician and interpreter at the Kangxi Court: Portuguese interests and the transmission of science / Catherine JAMI 187

The Yuzhi lixiang kaocheng houbian in Korea / SHI Yunli 205.