The emperor's new mathematics Western learning and imperial authority during the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722) / Catherine Jami.
Jami explores how the emperor Kangxi solidified the Qing dynasty in 17th-century China through the appropriation of the 'Western learning', and especially the mathematics, of Jesuit missionaries. This text details not only the history of mathematical ideas, but also their political and cul...
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