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Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 0226355594 . Kb? ...xv, 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 27 figures, 2 tables. Octavo. Pale jade green dust jacket with outline of map. DJ is clean and intact, book itself is clean and tight. Title page has gift inscription from the author "Florence" to her professor, Natalie Zemon Davis, as well as another note under the author's name (possibly in Davis's hand). As well, there is a printed copy of emails between the author and Davis tucked into the pages. Otherwise virtually as new. A very nice copy with special provenance. "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 armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard…
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 273p., very good hardcover in dustjacket. "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 armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise." -publisher's blurb.
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