On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 by Benjamin A. Elman

On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900

Benjamin A. Elman

606 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

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In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900).By 1600 Europe was ahead...

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