MANCHU MANUSCRIPTS ON MATHEMATICS IN THE T?Y? BUNKO, THE STATE LIBRARY OF INNER MONGOLIA AND THE BIBLIOTHèQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE

摘要

Three Manchu books on Western mathematics are treated. An overview of two of them is given. Their mutual relationships, their linguistic features and facts concerning their actual circulation are discussed by contrast with the Manchu Anatomy. Chinese rearrangement of Western materials was a feature common to the process of accepting Western sciences in the Kangxi era.