Title: Sojourners in a strange land
First published: 2009
Description: Jesuit missionaries astonished the Chinese with maps, clocks astrolabes and armillaries. Florence Hsia examines ways in which the Jesuits used Western science to help establish a credible presence in China in the 16th-18th centuries.
Subjects: Jesuits, missions, Missions, china, Missions, history, Science, china, Missions, History, Science, Jesuits
LC classification: BV2290 .H75 2009