Author | Jami, Catherine |
Place | Oxford, England |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Book, Digital Book (PDF) |
Series | |
Shelf | Hallway Cases, Digital Archives |
Call Number | Q127.C6 J36 2012 |
Description | xv, 436 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pdf |
Note | The emperor's new mathematics : Western learning and imperial authority during the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722) / Catherine Jami. Color maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-420) and index. Local access dig.pdf. [Jami-Emperors-New-Mathematics.pdf] |
ISBN | 9780199601400 ; 0199601402 |
LCCN | 2011937338 |
Author | Elman, Benjamin A., 1946- |
Place | Cambridge, MA |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Book, Digital Book (PDF) |
Series | |
Shelf | Hallway Cases, Digital Archives |
Call Number | Q127.C5 E48 2005 |
Description | xxxviii, 567 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.+ pdf |
Note | On their own terms : science in China, 1550-1900 / Benjamin A. Elman. Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-540) and index. Chinese dynasties -- I. Introduction. Prologue ; Ming classification on the eve of Jesuit contact -- II. Natural studies and the Jesuits. 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 -- III. Evidential research and natural studies. Evidential research and the restoration of ancient learning ; Seeking the truth and high Qing mathematics -- IV. Modern science and the Protestants. Protestants, education, and modern science to 1880 ; The construction of modern science in late Qing China -- V. Qing reformism and modern science. Government arsenals, science, and technology in China after 1860 ; Displacement of traditional Chinese science and medicine in the twentieth century -- Appendixes. Tang mathematical classics ; Some translations of chemistry, 1855-1873 ; Science outline series, 1882-1898 ; Partial chronological list of arsenals, etc., in China, 1861-1892 ; Table of contents for the 1886 Primers for science studies (Gezhi qimeng) ; Twenty-three fields of the sciences in the 1886 Primers for science studies ; Science compendia published in China from 1877 to 1903. Also in digital pdf format: [Elman-ScienceChina.pdf] |
ISBN | 0674016858 ; 9780674016859 |
LCCN | 2004059654 |