Florence C. Hsia
Title: Associate Professor, History of Science & Integrated Liberal Studies.
Interests: The Scientific Revolution, Jesuit science, science and religion, and
science and European expansion in the early modern era.
Email:fchsia@wisc.edu
Phone:(608) 262-3971
Office:Room 229, Bradley Memorial Building
Biography
A book project underway is tentatively titled Darkness at Noon: Chinese Astronomy and the Origins of European Sinology.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, History, 1999
M.A., University of Chicago, History, 1995
A.B., Princeton University, East Asian Studies, 1990
Books
Florence C. Hsia, Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Book Sections
"Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667): an apologia pro vita sua" section in Paula Findlen, ed., Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything (Routledge, 2004).
Articles
Florence C. Hsia, "Chinese Astronomy for the Early Modern European Reader," Early Science and Medicine 13:5 (2008), 417-450.
