Screen LibraryOn their own terms：science in China, 1550-1900
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxxviii, 567 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0674016858 (alk. paper) 9780674016859 (alk. paper) |
| Call Number: | N092/E481 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-540) and index. Ming classification on the eve of Jesuit contact -- 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 -- Evidential research and the restoration of ancient learning -- Seeking the truth and high Qing mathematics -- Protestants, education, and modern science to 1880 -- The construction of modern science in late Qing China -- Government arsenals, science, and technology in China after 1860 -- Displa |