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Author : Ferdinand Verbiest
Release : 1993
Genre : Astronomy
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Book Synopsis Astronomia Europaea by : Ferdinand Verbiest
Download or read book Astronomia Europaea written by Ferdinand Verbiest. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noël Golvers
Release : 2003
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 933/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese Heaven by : Noël Golvers
Download or read book Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese Heaven written by Noël Golvers. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes more than 220 copies of various astronomical publications by the missionary Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) sent from Peking.
Author : Willy vande Walle
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 152/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The History of the Relations Between the Low Countries and China in the Qing Era (1644-1911) by : Willy vande Walle
Download or read book The History of the Relations Between the Low Countries and China in the Qing Era (1644-1911) written by Willy vande Walle. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Florence C. Hsia
Release : 2011-04-15
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Sojourners in a Strange Land by : Florence C. Hsia
Download or read book Sojourners in a Strange Land written by Florence C. Hsia. This book was released on 2011-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe’s scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incarnations in late imperial China.
Author : D. R. M. Irving
Release : 2024-09-03
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century by : D. R. M. Irving
Download or read book The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century written by D. R. M. Irving. This book was released on 2024-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical representations of Europe in myth and allegory are well known, but when and under what circumstances did the words "European" and "music" become linked together? What did the resulting term mean in music before 1800 and how did it evolve into the label "Western music," which features so prominently in pedagogical and scholarly discourses? In The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century, author D. R. M. Irving traces the emergence of such large-scale categories in Western European thought. Beginning in the 1670s, Jesuit missionaries in China began to refer to "European music," and for the next hundred years the term appeared almost exclusively in comparison with musics from other parts of the world. It entered common use from the 1770s, and in the 1830s became synonymous with a new concept of "Western music." Western European writers also associated these terms with notions of "progress" and "perfection." Meanwhile, changing ideas about "modern" Europe's cultural relationship with classical antiquity, together with theories that systematically and condescendingly racialized people from other continents, influenced the ways that these scholars imagined and interpreted musical pasts around the globe. Irving weaves his analyses throughout the book's historical examinations, suggesting that "European music" originates from self-fashioning in contexts of intercultural comparison outside the continent, rather than from the resolution of national aesthetic differences within it. He shows that "Western music" as understood today arose in line with the growth of Orientalism and increasing awareness of musics of "the East." All such reductive terms often imply homogeneity and essentialism, and Irving asks what a reassessment of their beginnings might mean for music history. Taken as a whole, the book shows how a renewed critique of primary sources can help dismantle historiographical constructs that arose within narratives of musical pasts involving Europe.
