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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book 1: Trade, Missions, Literature (Asia in the Making of Europe Volume III)
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Excerpt - on Page 143: " ... the Christian mission to Bengal. They finally lost their monopoly: the French opened a factory at Chandernagore in 1688, the French Jesuits, unlike the earlier Jesuits, were permitted to work in Bengal in 169o, and the propaganda began to send its own ... "

On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900
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Excerpt - on Page 75: " ... The French Jesuits Joseph de Prémare (1666-1736) and Joachim Bouvet (1656-1730), who arrived in China in the late seventeenth century, believed for example ... "

Searching the Heavens and the Earth: The History of Jesuit Observatories (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
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Excerpt - on Page 5: " ... Several French Jesuits were members or corresponding members of the Académie Royale des Sciences of Paris founded in 1666. The Academy was reorganized ... "

Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
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Excerpt - on Page 9: " ... And, of course, even the "ordinary" deaths of baptized native babies were seen as a prelude to eternal life. The French Jesuits concentrated on all these signs of ultimate triumph partly because their experience in New France produced such meager results in ... "

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