This study explores the efforts of sixteenth-century Spanish cosmographers to create a
scientific framework to explain the New World. Cosmography is defined broadly to …

First published in 2004. Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)--German Jesuit, occultist, polymath-
was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of …

Before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later eighteenth century, how
did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? Orientalism in Louis XIV's …

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 …

Translation has a long history in China. Down the centuries translators, interpreters,
Buddhist monks, Jesuit priests, Protestant missionaries, writers, historians, linguists, and …

Nor must it go for nothing that by the distant voyages and travels which have become
frequent in our times many things in nature have been laid open and discovered which may …

Missionary Scientists explores the scientific activities of Jesuit missionaries in colonial
Spanish America, revealing a little-known aspect of religions role in the scholarship of the …

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This essay surveys the history of science and medical research in the Philippines from the
Spanish conquest through the 1970s. It touches on the links between science, religion, the …

The Jesuits Page 1 Page 2 the jesuits Page 3 Page 4 The Jesuits a history markus friedrich
translated by john noël dillon prince ton university press prince ton & oxford Page 5 En glish …