From Flanders to Lisbon to the Mughal Empire: Hendrick Uwens and the mathematical backstage of a Jesuit missionary’s life
Hendrick Uwens (1618-1667) was a Flemish-educated Jesuit who became a missionary to the Mughal Empire. Prior to embarking on his missionary work, he taught mixed mathematics in Lisbon in the early 1640s. Both in Europe and India, Uwens often insisted on portraying himself as a mathematician. Mathema...
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Brill Academic Publishers
2020
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