The Funeral Rites of Auitzotl - World Digital Library
Description The Tovar Codex, attributed to the 16th-century Mexican Jesuit Juan de Tovar, contains detailed information about the rites and ceremonies of the Aztecs (also...

The National Library Songbook - World Digital Library
in Italy around 1525−26 by order of Angelo Colocci (1474−1549), an Italian humanist and Jesuit priest with a keen interest in early Italian, Provençal, and especially...

Illustrations and Explanations of Various Machines - World Digital Library
and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far West), was dictated by German Jesuit missionary Johann Schreck (1576−1630) and recorded by Wang Zheng. It introduces...

“Shipwrecked” by Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, and the Description of the Journey Which he Made Through Florida with Panfilo de Narvaez - World Digital Library
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 1490-1560 Type of Item Books Physical Description 52 pages; 31 centimeters Notes Woodcut initial and headpiece. Headpiece has Jesuit emblem...

Descartes’s "Principles of Philosophy" - World Digital Library
to shape how the modern world came to see nature and the human mind. The son of a lawyer, he was educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche and in Poitiers, where he...

Enlightening the Bewildered about the New Calendar - World Digital Library
, the Chinese name of Johann Adam Schall von Bell (circa 1592–1666), the German Jesuit missionary and astronomer who became an important adviser to the first emperor...

The Elements of Geometry - World Digital Library
to translate instead Elements de geometrie by French Jesuit Ignace Gaston Pardies (1636–73), which drew on Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius. They gave their work...

Illustrations and Explanations of Wonderful Machines - World Digital Library
Yuhan was the Chinese name of Johann Terrenz (1576-1630), a Jesuit missionary who was born in Konstanz, Germany and came to China in the late Ming era. A talented...

All Essential Matters on Firearms - World Digital Library
Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell, 1592–1666) in 1643 and copied by the late-Ming scholar and expert on firearms, Jiao Xu (active 1643). Jiao Xu...

Treatise on Friendship - World Digital Library
Description You lun (Treatise on friendship), also entitled Jiao you lun (Treatise on making friends), is by the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), who also...