Tomás Pereira, S. J. 1646-1708
Subtitle: life, work and world
By: edited by Luís Filipe Barreto
Publisher: Centro científico e cultural de Macau; Funda-cão para a ciência e a tecnologia
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9789728586201
Subjects: Congresses; History; Jesuits
Notes: Proceedings of an international symposium on Tomás Pereira held in Lisbon, October 2008.

Text in English.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Education and culture in Portugal in the 16th and 17th centuries and the humanistic training of the Jesuit Tomás Pereira / João Francisco Marques; title: Tomás Pereira : Family and Training in Portugal / Ana Cristina da Costa Gomes; title: Jesuit Orientalism : Correspondence between Tomás Pereira and Fernãupanov; title: Engineering in the missions and missions as engineering : Claudio Filippo Grimaldi until his return to Beijing (1694) / Ugo Baldini; title: From Lisbon to Beijing / Isabel Murta Pina; title: Between "centers" and "peripheries" : an analysis of correspondence sent from Beijing to Europe / Pedro Lage Reis Correia; title: Practical music and the practice of music before the arrival of Tomás Pereira in Beijing / Elisabetta Corsi; title: Tomás Pereira and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk / James K. Chin; title: Fiction or Reality? : A voyage round the world by Dr. John Francis Gemelli Careri / Elisabetta Colla; title: F. Verbiest, G. Magalhães, T. Pereyra and the others. The Jesuit Xitang College in Peking (1670-1688) as an extra-ordinary professional milieu / Noël Golvers; title: Tomás Pereira and the Italian Jesuits in China / Mariagrazia Russo; title: The first political borders of the Eurasian continent at the northern "entrances" to the Son of Heaven? /Daniela Dumbravă; title: Tomás Pereira, French Jesuits, and the Kangxi Emperor / Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia; title: Geographical Intelligence on the Tartar Lands in Pereyra's time : the Peking-Moscow-Amsterdam Connection / Willy F. Vande Walle.