Letters of a Peking Jesuit

Letters of a Peking Jesuit
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ISBN-10 : 9082090988
ISBN-13 : 9789082090987
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Download or read book Letters of a Peking Jesuit written by Ferdinand Verbiest and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with Verbiest?s printed works, this correspondence is the most direct witness of his rich life and activities (1623-1688). It covers the 43 years between his first application for the Indies (1645) and his farewell to the Kangxi Emperor (28.01.1688). Side by side with the copies of his astronomical drawings and eclipse maps, inventoried in 'F. Verbiest and the Chinese Heaven' (2003), these letters reveal a wide-ranging network of contacts, within China and with Europe. The topics are as many and various as the 55 correspondents are different, spanning the whole spectrum from the Jesuits in Moscow to Pedro II in Lisbon, from the Franciscans in Shandong to Pope Innocentius XI and the Cardinals of CPF in Rome. The topics are related to his successive positions in the Jesuit hierarchy in China, his work as an engineer and ?astronomer? for the Court and his international diplomatic interventions, with the Jesuit mission in China as the central argument. This edition of 134 letters from and to Verbiest replaces that of Henri Bosmans (1938). It is a critical revision of the formerly known 80 items, with a restitution of the original Chinese transcriptions, all extended with 54 new items, mostly from the Ajuda archives (Lisbon), the latter putting especially the Chinese scene in the focus. Two major documents are added (dated 1661 and 1681), which reflect his talents as a polemic writer; also in various other letters he unfolds scriptorial talents, combined to a sharp sense of observation.


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