Science, Technology and Religion: The Exchange Between Enlightenment Europe and Imperial China (2021)
Davis, Robert V. (Author)
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Pages: 149-169
The European Enlightenment fostered a sense of progress through a delineation of universal human rights as well as through a reductionist mathematization of nature. Science, technology and religion became a form of cultural currency between Europe and Imperial China. The Jesuits bartered mathematics, geographic surveys and military technology to win religious permissions with Chinese emperors. Other Europeans were convinced ancient Chinese texts corresponded to the Old Testament. China sent to Europe a Confucian model of a social ethic that demonstrated non-Christian civic virtues. This article examines this exchange using the intercourse in science, technology and religion as the metric.
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