History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia VI

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History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia VI

Measuring Time, Heaven and Earth

Saraiva, Luis; Lim, Jongtae

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

04/2026

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9783032140265

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Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Part I: Time.- Chapter 1. Diplomacy, spirituality, and the making of mechanical clocks in the Jesuit Painting Seminary in Japan (Alexandra Curvelo).- Part II: Western mathematical influence in East Asia.- Chapter 2. On interpretation of Euclid's logic in the translation of the Elements by Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi (Alexei Volkov).- Chapter 3. Measuring Heaven and Earth in a mathematical manual in eighteenth-century Korea- Hong Taeyong's Calculations for practical uses (Hong Yujin).- Part III: Maps.- Chapter 4. History of cartography and national narratives: the case of the earlier Portuguese planispheres (1502-1559) (Francisco Roque de Oliveira).- Part IV: Cosmology.- Chapter 5. The Jesuits, Cosmology and accommodation in early seventeenth-century Macao (Luis Miguel Carolino).- Chapter 6. Buddhist-cosmological concepts in Japanese Buddhist world maps of the 14th-19th centuries (Yang Wei-Ting).- Part V: Official astronomy in China.- Chapter 7. Christian astronomer families of the Qing Astronomical Bureau: as exemplified by the Bao family (Chang Ping-Ying).- Part VI: Measurements in the service of the State.- Chapter 8. Pierre Jartoux: manual worker in the Forbidden City, imperial cartographer, mathematician (Ugo Baldini).- Chapter 9. Pierre Jartoux's Brevis vitae ratio: an annotated edition (Davor Antonucci and Ugo Baldini).- Chapter 10. Measuring Our Heaven with Imperial Astronomy: So Myong'ung and So Hosu's Astronomical Reform Project in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea (Lim Jongtae and Kim Seulki).- Index.
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Portugal East Asia relations;History of science;Philosophy of science;Qing Astronomical Bureau;Imperial Astronomy;Portuguese planispheres