oa Scientific books and individual curricula among Jesuit Indipetae in Portugal and China (17^th-18^th cent.)

In this contribution, I show how the study and practice of mathematics in Portugal in the 17^th and 18^th centuries was framed within the development of the SJ mission of the “padroado”, especially in that of China; visibly also books and personal curricula were involved in it. In the 17^th cent., mainly “foreign” Jesuits - but not exclusively - were involved in it (Indipetae, in Coimbra, Lisbon, etc.), side by side with Portuguese personalities (Cassão, Francisco Pereira, e.g.); since the end of the 17^th century, with Tyrsus Gonzalez’ intervention and a successive reorganization of mathematical instruction in Lisbon, etc., Portuguese involvement augmented significantly, as a prosopographical list proves it, even if not all of them were appreciated by their European colleagues in China.