Generation of Giants: The Story of the Jesuits in China in the Last Decades of the Ming DynastyMaps on lining papers. |
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
Reaching For the Moon | 15 |
Ricci Joins the Expedition | 23 |
Copyright | |
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