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

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  • On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900
  • Written by author Benjamin A. Elman
  • Published by Harvard University Press, April 2005
  • 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 ahe
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1Ming classification on the eve of Jesuit contact24
2The Late Ming calendar crisis and Gregorian reform63
3Sino-Jesuit accommodations during the seventeenth century107
4The limits of Western learning in the early eighteenth century150
5The Jesuit role as experts in High Qing cartography and technology190
6Evidential research and the restoration of ancient learning225
7Seeking the truth and High Qing mathematics255
8Protestants, education, and modern science to 1880283
9The construction of modern science in Late Qing China320
10Government arsenals, science, and technology in China after 1860355
11Displacement of traditional Chinese science and medicine in the twentieth century396
App. 1Tang mathematical classics423
App. 2Some translations of chemistry, 1855-1873425
App. 3Science outline series, 1882-1898426
App. 4Partial chronological list of arsenals, etc., in China, 1861-1892427
App. 5Table of contents for the 1886 Primers for science studies (Gezhi qimeng)428
App. 6Twenty-three fields of the sciences in the 1886 Primers for science studies429
App. 7Science compendia published in China from 1877 to 1903430
App. 8Some officially selected Chinese prize essay topics from the Shanghai Polytechnic433
App. 9Scientific societies formed between 1912 and 1927434


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