The French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet (1656-1730) was one of the five famous "Mathematiciens du Roy" who were sent to China by the Sun King Louis XIV. This volume includes a lengthy introduction, the original text of the Journal with notes, map and chronology of Bouvet’s travels and seven indexes. Variétés Sinologiques No.95, 2005, 374 pages.
The French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet (1656-1730) was one of the five famous "Mathematiciens du Roy" who were sent to China by the Sun King Louis XIV. He was teacher of the Kangxi Emperor (reg. 1672-1722), twice legate of the Emperor to Europe from 1693 to 1698 and in 1706, one of the initiators of a French Jesuit mission in China, founder of an apostolic Academy and the last but not least he developed a kind a contextual theology for China which is known under the name of Figurism.
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