Noël Golvers: JOHANN SCHRECK TERRENTIUS, SJ
Noël Golvers: JOHANN SCHRECK TERRENTIUS, SJ 648 p., 8 b/w ills + 30 col. ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2021, HB, ISBN: 978-2-503-58143-9 € 95 (excl. VAT)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 ChinaA thorough analysis of the sinuous ‘peregrinatio academica’ of Johann Terrentius Schreck (1576-1630) between 1600-1618 through (South-Central- and NW-) European universities, academies and courts (at Freiburg /Br.; Paris; Rome;