Christian and Chinese World Views in the Seventeenth Century

China was the first country beyond Europe with an important civilization to receive scientific theory from the West in the modern era. Neither in India nor in Japan (where the first Western works arrived from China and were quickly banned) nor a fortiori in other missionary countries was there an early acquaintance with European sciences. In China the first handbook of Western geometry was printed in 1607, the first treatise of astronomy in 1614. After 1584 a map of the world, inspired no doubt by that of Ortelius of 1570, was engraved in stone. Printed versions spread quickly in China and continued into Korea and Japan. The algebraic notation of Viète, plane and solid trigonometry, logarithms (called then the rules of Neper), the cosmology of Aristotle and the methods of astronomical calculation of Tycho Brahe were all introduced into China during the course of the 17th century

Chinese history and philosophy · History · Philosophy

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• Learning from Heaven

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• Ming government

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• Relations with maritime Europeans, 1514–1662

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• Ming Buddhism

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• The Ming fiscal administration

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• Ming China and the emerging world economy, c. 1470–1650

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• Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming

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• Confucian learning in late Ming thought

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• The socio-economic development of rural China during the Ming

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• The Cambridge History of China

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• The Cambridge History of China

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• All under heaven (tianxia)

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