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Author Conference "History of Mathematical Sciences:Portugal and East Asia II" (1998 : University of Macao)

Title History of mathematical sciences : Portugal and East Asia II : University of Macau, China, 10-12 October 1998 / edited by Luís Saraiva
Published Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Macau: an intercultural frontier in the Ming period / Luís Filipe Barreto -- Survey and study of pre-1900 cChinese maps seen in Europe / Li Xiaocong -- Western knowledge of geography reflected in Juan Cobo's Shilu (1593) / Liu Dun -- The continuing influence of the Portuguese: "A new interpretation of world geography" / Wang Qianjin -- Teachers of mathematics in China: the Jesuits and their textbooks (1580-1723) / Catherine Jami -- News from China in sixteenth century Europe: the Portuguese connection / Rui Loureiro -- The Indianization of Spain in the 16th century / Juan Gil -- Jesuit observations and star-mappings in Beijing as the transmission of scientific knowledge / Keizo Hashimoto -- The compilation of the Lixiang Kaochenghoubian, its origin, sources, and social context / Han Qi -- A Japanese reaction to Aristotelian cosmology / Tadashi Yoshida -- Portugal and Korea: obscure connections in the pre-modern sciences before 1900 / Park Seong-Rae -- Translations of Portuguese texts into Konkani and Konkani compositions into Portuguese, with educational influence on literature and art and the transfer of technology / Joseph Velinkar
Summary This book explores the interaction between Europe and East Asia between the 16th and the 18th centuries in the field of mathematical sciences, bringing to the fore the role of Portugal as an agent of transmission of European science to East Asia. It is an important contribution to understanding this fundamental period of scientific history, beginning with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India in 1498 and ending with the expulsion of the Society of Jesus from Portugal in 1759. The former event opened a new era in relations between Europe and Asia, in particular regarding the circulation of scie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Mathematics -- East Asia -- History -- Congresses
Mathematics -- Portugal -- History -- Congresses
MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
Intellectual life -- Western influences
Mathematics
SUBJECT East Asia -- Intellectual life -- Western influences -- History -- Congresses
Subject East Asia
Portugal
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Saraiva, Luís
LC no. 2005394737
ISBN 981270230X
9789812702302
9789812560780
9812560785
Other Titles At head of title: Scientific practices and the Portuguese expansion in Asia (1498-1759)