Memoirs and Observations Topographical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanical, Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical. Made in a late journey through the empire of China, and published in several letters.

Memoirs and Observations Topographical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanical, Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical. Made in a late journey through the empire of China, and published in several letters.

DS708 .L47

1697

Astronomer, geographer, and naturalist Louis Le Comte was a French Jesuit missionary who worked in China from 1688 to 1691. His book which presents a spectrum of information on China also defended the Jesuit policy of accommodation of Chinese rites and customs. The book, condemned in 1700, sparked the Chinese Rites Controversy in Europe.

527 pages

Asia - China Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

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