On their own terms : science in China, 1550-1900 / Benjamin A. Elman.

Science in China, 1550-1900

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

xxxviii, 567 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-540) and index.

Ming classification on the eve of Jesuit contact -- The Late Ming calendar crisis and Gregorian reform -- Sino-Jesuit accommodations during the seventeenth century -- The limits of Western learning in the early eighteenth century -- The Jesuit role as experts in high Qing cartography and technology -- Evidential research and the restoration of ancient learning -- Seeking the truth and high Qing mathematics -- Protestants, education, and modern science to 1880 -- The construction of modern science in late Qing China -- Government arsenals, science, and technology in China after 1860 -- Displacement of traditional Chinese science and medicine in the twentieth century.