Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most
memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and …

The ability of the Society of Jesus to engage in a broad and enduring tradition of scientific
activity is here addressed in terms of its programmatic commitment to the consolidation and …

A historical look at styles of technological research and design. If it is true, as Tocqueville
suggested, that social and class systems shape technology, research, and knowledge, then …

In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of
Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits. The Society's goal was to …

Entre los siglos XV y XVIII Europa fue escenario de una serie de novedades, cambios o
transformaciones en los saberes acerca de la naturaleza, en los procedimientos y métodos …

Abstract The Society of Jesus established an extensive range of measures designed to
ensure uniformity in natural philosophical questions. These culminated in the Ordinatio pro …

In total, 281 medical and pharmaceutical books, and some journals (including 'general'ones,
such as the Gazeta de Lisboa) are preserved in the so-called Beitang collection (Peking) …

T he seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in the course of which Jesuit missionaries came
into contact with the Chinese elite, witnessed a succession of radical scientific changes …

Theories of the Earth from Descartes to Cuvier: Natural order and historical contingency in a
contested textual tradition Theories of the Earth from Descartes to Cuvier: Natural order and …

Abstract As North American plants took root in Parisian botanical gardens and regularly
appeared in scientific texts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they retained their …