Science, Technology and Religion: The Exchange Between Enlightenment Europe and Imperial China
The European Enlightenment fostered a sense of progress through a delineation of universal human rights as well as through a reductionist mathematization of nature. Science, technology and religion became a form of cultural currency between Europe and Imperial China. The Jesuits bartered mathematics...
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| Language: | English |
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2021-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2021-0016 |