edited by Luís Saraiva (University of Lisbon, Portugal) & Catherine Jami (CNRS, REHSEIS, France)

Table of Contents (35k)
Foreword (89k)
The Jesuit Mathematicians of the Portuguese Assistancy and the Portuguese Historians of Mathematics (1819-1940) (279k)

At the end of the 15th century, Portugal was given the oversight (Padroado) of all Catholic missions in Asia. The Society of Jesus played a major role in this enterprise of evangelization, which in Jesuit hands led to the transmission of major elements of European mathematical sciences to East Asia. The essays in this volume present important new data and analysis on the extent to and ways in which Jesuit scientific culture and Portuguese policies regarding education, trade and mission shaped the reception of “Western learning” in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam in the early modern period.

• The Jesuit Mathematicians of the Portuguese Assistancy and the Portuguese Historians of Mathematics (1819–1940) (L M R Saraiva)
• The Jesuit College in Macao as a Meeting Point of the European, Chinese and Japanese Mathematical Traditions. Some Remarks on the Present State of Research, Mainly Concerning Sources (16th–17th Centuries) (U Baldini)
• The Transmission of Western Cosmology to 16th Century Japan (R Hiraoka)
• The Contents and Context of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlüe (H Leitão)
• The Textual Tradition of Manuel Dias' Tianwenlüe (R Magone)
• Restoring the Unity of the World: Fang Yizhi and Jie Xuan's Responses to Aristotelian Natural Philosophy (J Lim)
• Traditional Vietnamese Astronomy in Accounts of Jesuit Missionaries (A Volkov)
• Tomé Pereira (1645–1708), Clockmaker, Musician and Interpreter at the Kangxi Court: Portuguese Interests and the Transmission of Science (C Jami)
• The Yuzhi Lixiang Kaocheng Houbian in Korea (Y Shi)