Subject: Calendar, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1911

Chongzhen lishu 崇禎曆書. [BnF Chinois 4966]
AuthorSchall von Bell, Johann Adam 湯若望, 1592-1666Xu Guangqi 徐光啟, 1562-1633
PlaceBeijing 北京
PublisherWuyingdian 武英殿
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
Series
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberQB17.C476 1644d
Descriptiondig.pdf. [6 juan (192 frames) : ill.]
NoteChongzhen lishu 崇禎曆書 [Collection relative au calendrier, années Chongzhen] / [Tang Ruowang zhuan 湯若望譔].
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Chinois 4966.
Contents : I. Hengxing lizhi 恒星曆指 [Théorie des étoiles fixes]. II. Hengxing jingwei biao 恒星經緯表 [Tables des latitudes et longitudes des étoiles fixes].
Local access dig.pdf. [Chongzhen lishu.pdf]
Online at Gallica.
Liyin 曆引. [Xinfa liyin 新法曆引. Jap-Sin II, 39.1]
AuthorSchall von Bell, Johann Adam 湯若望, 1592-1666
Place---
Publisher---
CollectionARSI
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (stitch-bound 線裝本)
Series
ShelfARSI
Call NumberNOT HELD. DESCRIPTION ONLY
Description1 juan.
NoteFull citation for this title see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

JapSin II, 39.1
Xinfa liyin 新法曆引.
By Tang Ruowang 湯若望 (Johann Adam Schall von Bell).
One juan. Bamboo paper, one ce. No date or place of publication.

The cover has a label with the title: Liyin 曆引 and a Latin inscription: “Introductio ad astrono | micos calculos | a p. Adamo Schall.”
Folio 1 gives the title of the book and the name of the author: 敕賜通微教師加二品通政使司掌欽天監印務事臣湯若望刪定.
There are nine columns in each half folio with twenty characters in each column. Annotations are given in smaller type and in double lines. The title of the book is given in the middle of each folio with the number of the folio below the fish tail.
This book is an introduction to the new calendar according to the Western method. It was part of the Chongzhen lishu 崇禎曆書, first published around 1634. From the official titles of Schall (see above, folio 1) it is clear that our edition must be of the Kangxi period or later. In 1653 Schall was given the title Tongxuan jiaoshi 通玄教師 by the Shunzhi emperor. After 1661 the character xuan 玄 was changed into wei 微 to avoid the personal name of the Kangxi emperor, Xuanye 玄曄. From then on, Schall’s title was Tongwei jiaoshi 通微教師.

Cf. Pfister, p. 180, no. 23; Couplet, pp. 21–22; Hsü 1949, p. 373; Väth, p. 363, no. 6; Courant 4953.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 325.

Modes of power: time, temporality, and calendar reform by Jesuit missionaries in Late Imperial China. [electronic resource]
AuthorBlasingame, Ryan S.
Place---
PublisherDigital Archive @ GSU
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis/Dissertation (PDF)
Series
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberQB209.B63 2013d - [2013-05-11T07:00:00Z]
Descriptiondig.pdf. 66 [vii, 57 p.]
NoteModes of power: time, temporality, and calendar reform by Jesuit missionaries in Late Imperial China. [electronic resource].
Thesis (M.A. : History :Georgia State University)
Online access: GSU Digital Archive.[accessed 10-8-13]
INDEX WORDS: Time, Temporality, Power, Society of Jesus, Jesuit, Imperial China, Calendar reform, Matteo Ricci, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Natural philosophy.
Local access dig.pdf. [Blasingame-Modes of Power.pdf]

This work explores the relationship between time, temporality, and power by utilizing interactions between Jesuit missionaries and the Ming and Qing governments of late imperial China as a case study. It outlines the complex relationship between knowledge of celestial mechanics, methods of measuring the passage of time, and the tightly controlled circumstances in which that knowledge was allowed to operate. Just as the Chinese courts exercised authority over time and the heavens, so too had the Catholic Church in Europe. So as messengers of God’s authority, the Jesuits identified the importance of astronomical and temporal authority in Chinese culture and sought to convey the supremacy of Christianity through their mastery of the stars and negotiate positions of power within both imperial governments.

Qingdai Zhong-Xi libiao 清代中西曆表 (1573-1840)
AuthorZhongguo Renmin daxue 中國人民大學. Qingshi yanjiusuo 清史研究所. Ziliaoshi 資料室
PlaceBeijing 北京
PublisherZhongguo Renmin daxue chubanshe 中國人民大學出版社
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition第1版
LanguageChinese 中文[簡體字]
TypeBook
Series
ShelfSilver Room
Call NumberCE15.C463 1980
Description268 p. ; 19 x 27 cm.
NoteQingdai Zhong-Xi libiao 清代中西曆表 (1573-1840) / Zhongguo Renmin daxue Qingshi yanjiusuo ziliaoshi bian 中國人民大學清史研究所資料室編.
LCCN81-184644
Shuxue 數學. Xu Shuxue 續數學
AuthorJiang Yong 江永, 1681-1762
PlaceShanghai 上海
PublisherShangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition初版
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (Text in Collection)
SeriesCongshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編 ; 1328-1329
ShelfAdmin. Office Gallery
Call Number1328-1329
Description2 v. (4, 415 p.) : ill. ; 17.5 cm.
NoteShuxue : fu Xu Shuxue 數學 : 附續數學 / Jiang Yong zhuan 江永撰.
民國25 [1936].
Wuxing xingdu jie 五星行度解. Lixue dawen 歷學答問. Lixue yiwen bu 歷學疑問補. Eryiming buzhu 二儀銘補注
AuthorMei Wending 梅文鼎, 1633-1721Wang Xichan [Wang Xishan] 王錫闡, 1628-1682
PlaceShanghai 上海
PublisherShangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition初版
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (Text in Collection)
SeriesCongshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編 ; 1325
ShelfAdmin. Office Gallery
Call NumberAC149.T76 1935 v. 1325
Description77 p. in various pagings : ill. ; 17.5 cm.
NoteWuxing xingdu jie 五星行度解 / Wang Xichan zhuan 王錫闡撰. Lixue dawen 歷學答問 / Mei Wending zuan 梅文鼎纂. Lixue yiwen bu 歷學疑問補 / Mei Wending zuan 梅文鼎纂. Eryiming buzhu 二儀銘補注 / Mei Wending zuan 梅文鼎纂.

"Wang Xishan....drew on the Tychonic model to construct his own, while pointing to some contradictions in the Jesuits’ writings. The model expounded in Wuxing xingdu jie 五星行度解 (Explanation of the Five Planets’ Angular Motions, 1673), gave a physical, rather than merely geometrical, account of planetary motion: Wang proposed that its cause was an attraction force comparable to that of a magnet"-–Cf. N. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 726.