(26 Sep 2023) A translation believed to be the oldest Japanese-language text on Western science has been discovered at a German library.
The translation — thought to date to the late-16th or early-17th century — rewords a Western book on cosmology compiled by a Spanish missionary active in Japan at the time.
One expert said the newly discovered manuscript reflected the early introduction of science in Japan, at a time when Western science and Christianity were closely entwined.
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