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Author: Noël Golvers
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9789058672933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book describes more than 220 copies of various astronomical publications by the missionary Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) sent from Peking.
Author: John W. Witek
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nettetal, Germany. Some 30 essays emerging from an International Conference held in Louvain, Belgium in 1988 (on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Verbiest's death) examine various aspects of the life and work of the Belgian Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest--scientist, engineer, and diplomat, and above all a missionary who contributed significantly to the growth of Christianity in China. Includes some 70 bandw illustrations. Published by Institut Monumenta Serica, Sank Augustin, distributed by Steyler Verlag, Postfach 24 60, D-41311 Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Ferdinand Verbiest
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13: 9789082090987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Together with Verbiest?s printed works, this correspondence is the most direct witness of his rich life and activities (1623-1688). It covers the 43 years between his first application for the Indies (1645) and his farewell to the Kangxi Emperor (28.01.1688). Side by side with the copies of his astronomical drawings and eclipse maps, inventoried in 'F. Verbiest and the Chinese Heaven' (2003), these letters reveal a wide-ranging network of contacts, within China and with Europe. The topics are as many and various as the 55 correspondents are different, spanning the whole spectrum from the Jesuits in Moscow to Pedro II in Lisbon, from the Franciscans in Shandong to Pope Innocentius XI and the Cardinals of CPF in Rome. The topics are related to his successive positions in the Jesuit hierarchy in China, his work as an engineer and ?astronomer? for the Court and his international diplomatic interventions, with the Jesuit mission in China as the central argument. This edition of 134 letters from and to Verbiest replaces that of Henri Bosmans (1938). It is a critical revision of the formerly known 80 items, with a restitution of the original Chinese transcriptions, all extended with 54 new items, mostly from the Ajuda archives (Lisbon), the latter putting especially the Chinese scene in the focus. Two major documents are added (dated 1661 and 1681), which reflect his talents as a polemic writer; also in various other letters he unfolds scriptorial talents, combined to a sharp sense of observation.
Author: Marcia Reed
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1606060686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007 to Feb. 10, 2008.
Author: National Library of Australia
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780642276353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Richly illustrated with exquisite manuscript maps and editions from celebrated European cartographic publishers of 17th century to familiar contemporary products such as tourist maps. Discover the stories behind these maps, the technological changes in map making and changes in human knowledge and representation of the world.
Author: Roger Tavernier
Publisher: Barkhuis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9077089047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This bibliography contains everything that has been published in the West--except from Russia--about the relations between the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) and Russia--in every Western language"--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Willard J. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1316445046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring.
Author: Alan Kam Leung Chan
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2002-07-24
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 981448864X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations. It is the third in a series of books growing out of the tri-annual International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, the largest and most prestigious gathering of scholars in the field. The current volume broadens the field's traditional focus on China to include path-breaking work on Vietnam, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and even the transmission of Asian science and technology to Europe and the United States. Topics covered include: traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino medicines; Chinese astronomy; Japanese earthquakes; science and technology policy; architecture; the digital revolution; and much else.
Author: Martha Cheung
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1134829310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Translation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters, Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and even ministers and emperors have all written about translation, and from an amazing array of perspectives. This second volume of the seminal two-volume anthology spans the 13th century CE to the very beginning of the nineteenth century with an entry dated circa 1800. It deals mainly with the transmission of Western learning to China – a translation venture that changed the epistemological horizon and even the mindset of Chinese people. Also included are texts that address translation between Chinese and the languages of China's Central Asian neighbours, such as Manchu, which was to become of crucial importance in the Qing Dynasty. Comprising 28 passages, most of which are translated into English for the first time here, the anthology is the first major source book of its kind to appear in English. It features valuable primary material, and is essential reading for postgraduate students and researchers working in the areas of Translation, Translation Studies and Asian Studies.
Author: Xiping Zhang
Publisher: 五洲传播出版社
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9787508509822
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