Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China (2009)
Hsia, Florence C. (Author)
University of Chicago Press
Physical Details: xv + 272 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Description Shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise.
Review Liam Matthew Brockey (2010) Review of "Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China". Journal of Early Modern History (pp. 385-387).
Review Baldini, Ugo (2012) Review of "Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 227).
Review Waddell, Mark A. (2010) Review of "Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China". Renaissance Quarterly (p. 945).
Review Wesołowski, Zbigniew (2014) Review of "Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China". East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (pp. 104-106).
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