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Epistemic Network: The Jesuits and Tropical Cyclone Prediction, 1860–1900

Isis, 2022
Jesuit scientists played a key role in the establishment of the earliest warning systems for tropical cyclones in the 1870s and 1880s. Jesuit observatories and their cyclone prediction methods were unrivaled in the geopolitically and commercially ...
Aitor Anduaga
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Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits

Journal Economic History, 2019
From 1580, the Jesuits introduced European sciences to China―an autarkic civilization whose intelligentsia was dominated by Confucian literati. Drawing upon prefectural distributions of the Jesuits and Chinese scientific works, this paper demonstrates ...
Chicheng Ma
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The Negotiated Geography of the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) and the Role of the Jesuits

Late Imperial China, 2019
:The 1689 peace negotiations in Nerchinsk between Muscovite Russia and Qing China resulted in the first bilateral settlement of the territorial disputes between the two empires and led to extensive surveys in the frontier region.
Helena Jaskov
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Enslaved Faith Communities in the Jesuits' Missouri Mission

U S Catholic Historian, 2019
:Between 1823 and 1865 members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Missouri utilized the labor of more than seventy enslaved individuals at locations including Saint Stanislaus Novitiate, Saint Louis University, and regional parishes and missions.
Kelly L Schmidt
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Jesuits and Eucharistic Concelebration

Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, 2019
Following Vatican II, the delegates of GC 31 encouraged concelebration in Jesuit houses. Since then, however, the practice has become controversial. The author points out that the current predominant custom of Jesuit priests attending Mass modo laico is ...
James J. Conn
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Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe

, 2018
The Jesuits devoted themselves to preaching the word of God, administering the sacraments, and spreading the faith by missions in both Europe and newly discovered lands abroad.
D. Kley
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