Monitored connections : transnational Nagasaki and the circulation of hybridized cosmologies in Early Modern Japan (1630-1720)

Daniel Said Monteiro

The main goal of this dissertation is to and to shed light on the development of hybrid forms of cosmological thought in early modern Japan by delving into the epistemological entanglements that took place in the contact zone of Nagasaki -- particularly between 1630 and 1720. By introducing the conc