This article explores Adam Schall von Bell’s Investigations of the Earth’s Interior(Kunyu gezhi坤輿格致,1639-1640),a significant Jesuit work aimed at reforming the Chinese mining and smelting industry by introducing...
Nitric acid or qiangshui强水(“strong liquid,”from lat.aqua fortis)was introduced to China multiple times by European missionaries during the Ming and Qing dynasties.Xu Guangqi徐光啟(1562-1633)was the first Chinese t...
support of the Research Program for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education,China[22YJA720005].
Following Aristotle,St.Thomas Aquinas considered sublunar matter and supralunar matter to be substantially different,composed of two distinct species.The Coimbra Jesuit commentary on De coelo,published in 1593,support...
Dr.Edmund Dipper,a distinguished German doctor practicing in China during the tumultuous decades of the 1920s and 1930s,rose to near-legendary status during the Republican era.Yet,the historical trajectory leading to ...
At the beginning of the twentieth century,cultural policy became a central element of Germany’s expansionist foreign policy toward China.In this context,the German government had a Poliklinik established in Chongqing...
The surprising rediscovery of the believed-to-be-lost“translation”of Georgius Agricola’s mining science masterpiece De re metallica(1556)into Chinese by the German Jesuit Adam Schall von Bell(Chinese name Tang Ruow...
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the support of the Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China at Technische Universitat Berlin。
Pre-modern Chinese crafts,such as iron smelting,cookery,medicine,and the production of vehicles,bows,and arrows indicate the traditional Chinese view of technology as being organic,holistic,and comprehensive.This view...
The idea of the hypothetical Magellanica Continent(Terra Australis Incognita)was introduced into China by the Jesuit missionaries during the seventeenth century.While not accepted by the Chinese government,it was affi...
It was generally accepted that manuscript maps,as distinct from printed maps,exhibited no signs of printing and were entirely hand-drawn.Western scholars Christopher Terrell and Tony Campbell were the first to break t...