Sojourners in a strange land
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Sojourners in a strange land

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291 pages 2009

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Jesuit missionaries astonished the Chinese with maps, clocks astrolabes and armillaries. Florence Hsia examines ways in which the Jesuits used Western science to help establish a credible presence in China in the 16th-18th centuries.

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