Clavius and His Astronomical Data during the 'Christian Century' in Japan

• HIRAOKA Ryuji

  Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture

抄録

During the so-called Christian century (1549-1650), Jesuit missionaries first introduced Western mathematical science to Japan. In the dissemination, Christoph Clavius's In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius has been thought to have played an important part, as was the case in seventeenth-century China, but the particular processes of the book's introduction have yet to be demonstrated in detail. Focusing on the data concerning the dimensions of the heavens found in several Latin, Chinese, and Japanese works, this paper reveals that the transmission of Clavius's In sphaeram to Japan can be divided into three different stages: (1) Pedro Gomez's use in his textbook at the Jesuit college in Japan, (2) Sawano Chuan's use in his draft, which later became Kenkon bensetsu and Tenmon biyo, and (3) indirect introduction through Matteo Ricci's Kunyu wankuo quantu.

収録刊行物

• Historia scientiarum. Second series : international journal of the History of Science Society of Japan

  Historia scientiarum. Second series : international journal of the History of Science Society of Japan 18 (3), 213-236, 2009-03-31

  日本科学史学会

キーワード

• History of astronomy in Japan
• Jesuits
• Christoph Clavius
• Pedro Gomez
• Sawano Chuan (Christovao Ferreira)

詳細情報

• CRID: 1570009752616504960
• NII論文ID: 110007160430
• NII書誌ID: AA11081495
• ISSN: 02854821
• 本文言語コード: en
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