Global Science and Comparative History: Jesuits, Science, and Philology in China and Europe, 1550-1850
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[Benjamin Elman is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. He specializes in late imperial Chinese intellectual history and in the history of science and education. His recent book is entitled On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (Harvard University Press, 2005). Previously he has published A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900 (University of California Press, 2000).]
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