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| Author | : Noël Golvers |
| Publisher | : Leuven University Press |
| Total Pages | : 664 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9789058672933 |
This book describes more than 220 copies of various astronomical publications by the missionary Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) sent from Peking.
| Author | : John W. Witek |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 636 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Nettetal, Germany. Some 30 essays emerging from an International Conference held in Louvain, Belgium in 1988 (on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Verbiest's death) examine various aspects of the life and work of the Belgian Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest--scientist, engineer, and diplomat, and above all a missionary who contributed significantly to the growth of Christianity in China. Includes some 70 bandw illustrations. Published by Institut Monumenta Serica, Sank Augustin, distributed by Steyler Verlag, Postfach 24 60, D-41311 Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Ferdinand Verbiest |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Astronomy |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Agustín Udías |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2014-09-27 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 3319083651 |
This book presents a comprehensive history of the many contributions the Jesuits made to science from their founding to the present. It also links the Jesuits dedication to science with their specific spirituality which tries to find God in all things. The book begins with Christopher Clavius, professor of mathematics in the Roman College between 1567 and 1595, the initiator of this tradition. It covers Jesuits scientific contributions in mathematics, astronomy, physics and cartography up until the suppression of the order by the Pope in 1773. Next, the book details the scientific work the Jesuits pursued after their restoration in 1814. It examines the establishment of a network of observatories throughout the world; details contributions made to the study of tropical hurricanes, earthquakes and terrestrial magnetism and examines such important figures as Angelo Secchi, Stephen J. Perry, James B. Macelwane and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. From their founding to the present, Jesuits have trodden an uncommon path to the frontiers where the Christian message is not yet known. Jesuits’ work in science is also an interesting chapter in the general problem of the relation between science and religion. This book provides readers with a complete portrait of the Jesuit scientific tradition. Its engaging story will appeal to those with an interest in the history of science, the history of the relations between science and religion and the history of Jesuits.
| Author | : M. Antoni J. Ucerler |
| Publisher | : Asian Art Museum |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2016-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780939117727 |
China at the Center focuses on two masterpieces of seventeenth-century map-making that illustrate the exchange of information (and misinformation) between Europe and Asia. The world maps created by Jesuit priests Matteo Ricci (1602) and Ferdinand Verbiest (1674) for the Chinese courts tell fascinating stories about the meeting of two worldviews. They provided Europeans with greater knowledge of China and the Chinese with new ideas about geography, astronomy, and the natural sciences. The maps also show the ways that certain myths were perpetuated, especially as seen in the vivid and imaginative descriptions of the peoples and places of the world and in their depictions of exotic fauna.
| Author | : Marcia Reed |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1606060686 |
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007 to Feb. 10, 2008.
| Author | : Agustin UDIAS |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2013-04-17 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9401703493 |
Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The history of these observatories has never been published in a complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were established in Jesuit colleges. During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of Beijing. In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories in Africa, South America and the Far East. Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the history of these sciences.
| Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2012-07-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307823067 |
A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
| Author | : Luís Saraiva |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9814390437 |
Missionaries, and in particular the Portuguese Assistancy of the Society of Jesus, played a fundamental role in the dissemination of Western scientific knowledge in East Asia. They also brought to Europe a deeper knowledge of Asian countries. This volume brings together a series of essays analyzing important new data on this significant scientific and cultural exchange, including several in-depth discussions of new sources relevant to Jesuit scientific activities at the Chinese Emperor's Court. It includes major contributions examining various case studies that range from the work of some individual missionaries (Karel Slavíček, Guillaume Bonjour) in Beijing during the reigns of Kangxi and Yongzheng to the cultural exchange between a Korean envoy and the Beijing Jesuits during the early 18th century. Focusing in particular on the relationship between science and the arts, this volume also features articles pertaining to the historical contributions made by Tomás Pereira and Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot, to the exchange of musical knowledge between China and Europe.
| Author | : Stanley H. Skreslet |
| Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2023-01-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1506481892 |
Challenging other narratives of mission history, Skreslet offers a new speech-act theory approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a missionary might intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time.
