Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus Serum seu Sinensium (Oxford, 1688) by Thomas Hyde
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Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus Serum seu Sinensium (Oxford, 1688) by Thomas Hyde

A forgotten chapter in the history of Sinology

Herausgeber: Poole, William
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The first documented encounter between an English scholar and a Chinese scholar took place in the Summer of 1687 in Oxford, England, when Thomas Hyde, Bodley's Librarian and the foremost oriental scholar of his day, met Shen Fuzong, a native of Nanjing and the child of Christian converts, who was visiting Europe in the company of the Jesuits. This book presents the first fruits of that encounter, Hyde's short Latin Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus Serum seu Sinensium ('Letter on the Measures and Weights of the Seres or Chinese'), printed in Oxford in 1688. Hyde's original text is here edited...