Grattan-Guinness – Landmark Wrtings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940
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Name: Grattan-Guinness – Landmark Wrtings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940
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Title: The Emperor’s New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)
Author: Catherine Jami
Language: angielski
Year: 2011
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199601400
Total pages: 1042
Description:
This book explores how the mathematics the Jesuits brought to China was reconstructed as a branch of imperial learning so that the emperor Kangxi (r. 1662-1722) could consolidate his power over the most populous empire in the world. Kangxi forced a return to the use of what became known as ‘Western’ methods in official astronomy. In his middle life he studied astronomy, musical theory, and mathematics in person, with Jesuits as his teachers. In his last years he sponsored a book that was intended to compile these three disciplines, and he set several of his sons to work on this project. All this activity formed a vital part of his plan for establishing Manchu authority over the Chinese. This book sets out to explain how and why Kangxi made the sciences a tool for laying the foundations of empire, and to show how, as part of this process, mathematics was reconstructed as a branch of imperial learning.
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