Christian and Chinese World Views in the Seventeenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4748866 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacques Gernet (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 105 |
| Pages | 93-115 |
| Publication date | 1979-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/039219217902710507 |
| OpenAlex | W2061912823 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
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
The Ming and Inner Asia
Learning from Heaven
Ming government
Relations with maritime Europeans, 1514–1662
Ming Buddhism
The Ming fiscal administration
Ming China and the emerging world economy, c. 1470–1650
Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming
Confucian learning in late Ming thought
The socio-economic development of rural China during the Ming
The Cambridge History of China
The Cambridge History of China
All under heaven (tianxia)
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2014 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |