Astronomical Chronology, the Jesuit China Mission, and Enlightenment History.
| cam.depositDate | 2022-05-05 | |
| cam.orpheus.counter | 51 | |
| cam.orpheus.success | Wed Sep 20 22:00:16 BST 2023 - Embargo updated | |
| dc.contributor.author | Giovannetti-Singh, Gianamar | |
| dc.contributor.orcid | Giovannetti-Singh, Gianamar [0000-0003-3752-6359] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-06T23:30:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-05-06T23:30:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-05-05T15:12:36Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article examines the use of astronomical chronology in Jesuit and secular works of history between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries. It suggests that the highly visible adoption of astronomical records in historical scholarship in Enlightenment Europe by Nicolas Fréret and Voltaire was entangled with debates about Chinese chronology, translated by Jesuit missionaries. The article argues that the missionary Martino Martini's experience of the Manchu conquest of China was crucial in shaping his conception of history as a discipline. Political events that unfolded in seventeenth-century China had a marked effect on discussions about emergent world history in eighteenth-century Europe. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.17863/CAM.84218 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1086-3222 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0022-5037 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336799 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Project MUSE | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of History and Philosophy of Science | |
| dc.publisher.url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2023.a901491 | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
| dc.subject | Humans | |
| dc.subject | Religious Missions | |
| dc.subject | Missionaries | |
| dc.subject | Europe | |
| dc.subject | China | |
| dc.title | Astronomical Chronology, the Jesuit China Mission, and Enlightenment History. | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-05-05 | |
| prism.publicationName | J Hist Ideas | |
| pubs.licence-display-name | Apollo Repository Deposit Licence Agreement | |
| pubs.licence-identifier | apollo-deposit-licence-2-1 | |
| rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
| rioxxterms.version | AM | |
| rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1353/jhi.2023.a901491 |
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