The Emperor's New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722) - Hardcover

Jami, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199601402 ISBN 13: 9780199601400

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2011

Synopsis

Explores how the emperor Kangxi solidified the Qing dynasty in seventeenth-century China through the appropriation of the 'Western learning.'

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About the Author

Catherine Jami is a Director of Research at the French CNRS (SPHERE, Université de Paris-Diderot). She originally trained as a mathematician, and then in Chinese studies. In the past she has served as presidents for both the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine and the Association Française d'Etudes Chinoises. She was also treasurer for the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (ICSU). Starting with her book 'Les Méthodes Rapides pour la Trigonométrie et le Rapport Précis du Cercle (1774): tradition chinoise et apport occidental en mathématiques' (1990), she has published extensively on mathematics in seventeenth and eighteenth century China, as well as on the Jesuit missionaries and the reception of the sciences they introduced to late Ming and early Qing China.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199601402
• ISBN 13: 9780199601400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 454