Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese Heaven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese Heaven write by Noël Golvers. This book was released on 2003. Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese Heaven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes more than 220 copies of various astronomical publications by the missionary Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) sent from Peking.
Letters of a Peking Jesuit
Letters of a Peking Jesuit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letters of a Peking Jesuit write by Ferdinand Verbiest. This book was released on 2017. Letters of a Peking Jesuit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Together with Verbiest?s printed works, this correspondence is the most direct witness of his rich life and activities (1623-1688). It covers the 43 years between his first application for the Indies (1645) and his farewell to the Kangxi Emperor (28.01.1688). Side by side with the copies of his astronomical drawings and eclipse maps, inventoried in 'F. Verbiest and the Chinese Heaven' (2003), these letters reveal a wide-ranging network of contacts, within China and with Europe. The topics are as many and various as the 55 correspondents are different, spanning the whole spectrum from the Jesuits in Moscow to Pedro II in Lisbon, from the Franciscans in Shandong to Pope Innocentius XI and the Cardinals of CPF in Rome. The topics are related to his successive positions in the Jesuit hierarchy in China, his work as an engineer and ?astronomer? for the Court and his international diplomatic interventions, with the Jesuit mission in China as the central argument. This edition of 134 letters from and to Verbiest replaces that of Henri Bosmans (1938). It is a critical revision of the formerly known 80 items, with a restitution of the original Chinese transcriptions, all extended with 54 new items, mostly from the Ajuda archives (Lisbon), the latter putting especially the Chinese scene in the focus. Two major documents are added (dated 1661 and 1681), which reflect his talents as a polemic writer; also in various other letters he unfolds scriptorial talents, combined to a sharp sense of observation.
China on Paper
China on Paper - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China on Paper write by Marcia Reed. This book was released on 2011. China on Paper available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007 to Feb. 10, 2008.
Europe and China
Europe and China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Europe and China write by Luis Saraiva. This book was released on 2013. Europe and China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Slav cek, 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 Tomis Pereira and Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot, to the exchange of musical knowledge between China and Europe.
The Globalization of Renaissance Art
The Globalization of Renaissance Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Globalization of Renaissance Art write by Daniel Savoy. This book was released on 2017-12-11. The Globalization of Renaissance Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review, Daniel Savoy assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to evaluate the global discourse on early modern European art. Over the course of eleven chapters and a roundtable, the contributors assess the discourse’s goal of transcending Eurocentric boundaries, reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of current terms, methods, theories, and concepts. Although it is clear that the global perspective has exposed the artistic and cultural pluralism of early modern Europe, it is found that more work needs to be done at the epistemological level of art history as a whole. Contributors: Claire Farago, Elizabeth Horodowich, Lauren Jacobi, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Jessica Keating, Stephanie Leitch, Emanuele Lugli, Lia Markey, Sean Roberts, Ananda Cohen-Aponte, and Marie Neil Wolff.
