TY - BOOK AU - Barreto,Luís Filipe TI - Tomás Pereira, S.J. 1646-1708: Life, Work and World SN - 9789728586201 PY - 2010/// CY - Lisboa PB - Centro científico e cultural de Macau, Funda-cão para a ciência e a tecnologia KW - Pereira, Thomas KW - History -- Biography -- Tomas Pereira -- Missionary -- Qing N1 - Proceedings of an international symposium on Tomás Pereira held in Lisbon, October 2008; Text in English; Includes bibliographical references; Education and culture in Portugal in the 16th and 17th centuries and the humanistic training of the Jesuit Tomás Pereira / João Francisco Marques -- Tomás Pereira : Family and Training in Portugal / Ana Cristina da Costa Gomes -- Jesuit Orientalism : Correspondence between Tomás Pereira and Fernãupanov -- Engineering in the missions and missions as engineering : Claudio Filippo Grimaldi until his return to Beijing (1694) / Ugo Baldini -- From Lisbon to Beijing / Isabel Murta Pina -- Between "centers" and "peripheries" : an analysis of correspondence sent from Beijing to Europe / Pedro Lage Reis Correia -- Practical music and the practice of music before the arrival of Tomás Pereira in Beijing / Elisabetta Corsi -- Tomás Pereira and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk / James K. Chin -- Fiction or Reality? : A voyage round the world by Dr. John Francis Gemelli Careri / Elisabetta Colla -- F. Verbiest, G. Magalhães, T. Pereyra and the others. The Jesuit Xitang College in Peking (1670-1688) as an extra-ordinary professional milieu / Noël Golvers -- Tomás Pereira and the Italian Jesuits in China / Mariagrazia Russo -- The first political borders of the Eurasian continent at the northern "entrances" to the Son of Heaven? /Daniela Dumbravă -- Tomás Pereira, French Jesuits, and the Kangxi Emperor / Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia -- Geographical Intelligence on the Tartar Lands in Pereyra's time : the Peking-Moscow-Amsterdam Connection / Willy F. Vande Walle ER -