id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bvq5znaqafbg3ep4jq6qqcljsy Elisabetta Corsi "Visiting Humanists" and Their Interpreters: Ricci (and Ruggieri) in China 2012 8 .pdf application/pdf 4480 356 70 Thus, the book opens up with Macerata and Rome where Ricci Hsia discusses Ricci's education in Rome and Lisbon, connecting it with the significant role than it has been thought of so far in orienting Ricci's future attitude toward Chinese culture as it is reflected in his writings. short pamphlet in the arte della conversazione,8 an early Renaissance new gentlemanly practice, it reported ten conversations, revised and embellished for editorial mathematical knowledge acquired by Ricci during the years spent with Clavius is The mathematical and astronomical books produced by Ricci, as well as any By this token, the Chinese books composed by Ricci and his confreres are not Ricci began to work on a Chinese rendition of Renaissance astronomy during his Ptolemy," Ricci dismissed Chinese astronomy, not realizing, as Hsia points out, From the excursus of Ricci's literary endeavors, provided by Hsia in chapters 7 mathematical books in Chinese, see C. ./cache/work_bvq5znaqafbg3ep4jq6qqcljsy.pdf ./txt/work_bvq5znaqafbg3ep4jq6qqcljsy.txt