Florence C. Hsia
Associate Professor, History of Science and Integrated Liberal Studies
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Special interests and recent research:
My research and teaching interests include the Scientific Revolution, Jesuit science, science and religion, and science and European expansion in the early modern era. A book project underway is tentatively titled Darkness at Noon: Chinese Astronomy and the Origins of European Sinology.
Recent publications:
Sojourners in a strange land: Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).- “Mathematical Martyrs, Mandarin Missionaries, and Apostolic Academicians: Telling Institutional Lives,” in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society, Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2004) 3-34.
- "Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata (1667)): An Apologia Pro Vita Sua," in Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything, Paula Findlen, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2004), 383-404.
- "Jesuits, Jupiter's Satellites, and the Académie Royale des Sciences," in The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773, John W. O'Malley, S.J., Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, and T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), 241-257.
Recent papers:
- Commentator at the Annual Symposium, September 18, 2008, "Jesuits and Science," at the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, Loyola University, Chicago.
- “Writing missions,” presented at the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Johns Hopkins University (2006).
- “Science for the Sovereign: from Paris to Beijing and Back Again,” at the XXII International Congress of History of Science, Beijing (2005).
- “Jesuit Chronology in China,” at the Workshop on The Destruction of Biblical chronology between Scaliger and Vico, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2005).