Making The New World Their Own: Chinese Encounters With Jesuit Science In The Age Of Discovery

Making The New World Their Own: Chinese Encounters With Jesuit Science In The Age Of Discovery
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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.

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