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Journey to the East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Journey to the East

It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.

Forgive Us Our Sins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Forgive Us Our Sins

Confession in early modern Europe has been the subject of several studies. But what happened to the confessional practice when it moved to other cultures? This is the major research question of the present book as applied to late Ming and early Qing China. The origin of this research can be traced back to the Handbook of Christianity in China: Volume One (635-1800) (Leiden 2000) compiled by researchers of the K.U. Leuven, in collaboration with an international team of circa twenty scholars. As a reference work, the Handbook comprehensively presents many different aspects of Christianity in China, including sciences, arts and crafts. But there was one major absentee: ritual, which is often co...

Machinery hall, annexes, and special buildings. Department V. Machinery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 578
Official Catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1876. (Part 3-4)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 562

Official Catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1876. (Part 3-4)

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Official Catalogue ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 570

Official Catalogue ...

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  • Published: 1876
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Portugal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Portugal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1828
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1554

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1971
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Medium Companies of Europe 1992/93
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 789

Medium Companies of Europe 1992/93

Guide to the Volumes 1 & 2 MEDIUM COMPANIES OF EUROPE 1992/93, Volume 1, arrangement of the book contains useful information on nearly 4500 of the most important medium-sized companies in the European This book has been arranged in order to allow the reader to Community, excluding the UK, over 1500 companies of which find any entry rapidly and accurately. are covered in Volume 2. Volume 3 covers nearly 2000 of the medium-sized companies within Western Europe but outside Company entries are listed alphabetically within each country the European Community. Altogether the three volumes of section; in addition three indexes are provided in Volumes 1 MEDIUM COMPANIES OF EUROPE now provide in and ...

2005
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 123

2005

This volume considers recent theoretical and observational developments in astronomy and astrophysics with contributions on solar system bodies, extrasolar planets, star formation, galaxy evolution and cosmology. A special section is dedicated to the history of astronomy including papers on the history of the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon, time service and legal time, the 1870 solar eclipse expedition, and a comparison between Monteiro da Rocha and Wilhelm Olbers methods for the determination of the orbits of comets. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Evolution of the Spin of Mercury and its Capture into the 3/2 Spin-Orbit Resonance (157 KB). Contents: Modern Astrophysics: Evolution of the S...

Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese

This monograph aims to shed light on the linguistic endeavors and educational practices employed by 17th century Spanish Dominicans in their efforts to understand and disseminate knowledge of the Chinese language during this historical period. Ample attention is dedicated to the evolution of Chinese grammars and dictionaries by these authors. Central to the monograph is the manuscript “Marsh 696”, which comprises a Chinese-Spanish dictionary and a fragmentary Spanish grammar of Mandarin Chinese, a hitherto unknown and unpublished anonymous and undated text entitled Arte de lengua mandarina. This text is probably a fragment of the earliest grammar written by a Westerner of Mandarin Chines...