The Jesuits the Padroado and East Asian Science (1552 – 1773)

Luís Saraiva e Catherine Jami

World Scientific Publishing Company | 2008 | 252 páginas | rar - pdf | 9,5 Mb

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One significant outcome of the missionary efforts of the Society of Jesus was the transmission of some of the mathematical sciences from early modern Europe to East Asia. Following the Padroado (1493-1494), Portugal became the patron of all missions in that part of the world. This book brings together important new data and analyses by a reputed group of science historians on the extent to and ways in which the Jesuits' scientific culture as well as the Portuguese policies regarding education, trade and missions shaped the reception of Western learning in East Asia during the early modern period. Themes analyzed include the teachings at Macau's Jesuit College, Portuguese historians of mathematics and the Society of Jesus and its mathematicians, Eastern and Western astronomy and philosophy, and the role of science both within the Jesuit mission and in the toleration of Christianity in China during the early Qing dynasty.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments .. vii
Foreword
Luís SARAIVA and Catherine JAMI ... ix
About the authors .. xvii
Pictures of conference participants .. xix
The Jesuit mathematicians of the Portuguese Assistancy and the Portuguese historians of mathematics (1819–1940)
Luís Manuel Ribeiro SARAIVA . 1
The Jesuit College in Macao as a meeting point of the European, Chinese and Japanese mathematical traditions. Some remarks on the present state of research, mainly concerning sources (16th–17th centuries)
Ugo BALDINI ... 33
The transmission of Western cosmology to 16th century Japan
HIRAOKA Ryuji .. 81
The contents and context of Manuel Dias’ Tianwenlüe
Henrique LEITÃO ... 99
The textual tradition of Manuel Dias’ Tianwenlüe 天問略
Rui MAGONE ..... 123
Restoring the unity of the world: Fang Yizhi and Jie Xuan’s responses to
Aristotelian natural philosophy
LIM Jongtae .. 139
Traditional Vietnamese astronomy in accounts of Jesuit missionaries
Alexei VOLKOV ... 161
Tomé Pereira (1645–1708), clockmaker, musician and interpreter at the Kangxi Court: Portuguese interests and the transmission of science
Catherine JAMI ... 187
The Yuzhi lixiang kaocheng houbian in Korea
SHI Yunli ..... 205

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History of mathematical sciences : Portugal and East Asia II : University of Macau, China, 10-12 October 1998 por Luís Saraiva; Publicação de conferência Idioma: Inglês   Editora: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2004.