Making the New World Their Own
| Author | : Qiong Zhang |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2015-05-26 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789004284388 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9004284389 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (389 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Making the New World Their Own by : Qiong Zhang
Download or read book Making the New World Their Own written by Qiong Zhang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the New World Their Own offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with the Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century.