From God’s hand to the hand of the artisan: the turned ivory sphere and the polyhedron in Qing China

This article focuses on the mechanized worldview of eighteenth-century China as expressed in the multilayered, geometric, turned ivory spheres known as guigong qiu (magic or demon’s-work ball), a name which implies that the balls were not created by human hands. Although these turned ivory spheres i...

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Auteur principal: Huang, Bing (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2022
Dans: Studies in Chinese Religions
Année: 2022, Volume: 8, Numéro: 2, Pages: 202-237
Sujets non-standardisés:B polyhedron
B Qing China
B Jesuit missionary
B guigong qiu
B Contrefaitkugel
B turned ivory balls
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