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While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor.

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Overall, this book is interesting for the analytical framework it suggests for approaching area-based global historical questions and it is very original in some of its historiographic claims... The Math Intelligencer

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Science as the Measure of Civilizations
3. From Copula to Incommensurable Worlds
4. Mathematical Texts in Historical Context
5. Tracing Practices Purloined by the Three Pillars
6. Xu Guangqi, Grand Guardian
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Zhu Zaiyu's New Theory of Calculation
Appendix B: Xu Guangqi's Right Triangles, Meanings
Appendix C: Xu Guangqi's Writings
Bibliography
Index

Imagined Civilizations

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 10 October 2013
      ISBN-13 9781421406060
      978-1421406060
      ISBN-10 1421406063
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      Applied mathematics History of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor.

      Trade Review
      Overall, this book is interesting for the analytical framework it suggests for approaching area-based global historical questions and it is very original in some of its historiographic claims... The Math Intelligencer

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction
      2. Science as the Measure of Civilizations
      3. From Copula to Incommensurable Worlds
      4. Mathematical Texts in Historical Context
      5. Tracing Practices Purloined by the Three Pillars
      6. Xu Guangqi, Grand Guardian
      7. Conclusions
      Acknowledgments
      Appendix A: Zhu Zaiyu's New Theory of Calculation
      Appendix B: Xu Guangqi's Right Triangles, Meanings
      Appendix C: Xu Guangqi's Writings
      Bibliography
      Index

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