Johann Schreck Terrentius, Sj: His European Network and the Origins of the Jesuit Library in Peking

By Noel, Golvers, Noël Golvers

The scholarly network and background of a Jesuit polymath, Johann Terrentius (1576-1630), in Europe (1600-1618) and his work as a China missionary (1619-1630), in alchemy, medicine, mathematics, botany, etc.; founder of Jesuit libraries in China and Jesuit scholarship, aiming at the transmission of knowledge to China.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503581439
• ISBN13: 9782503581439
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"