The calculating technology was communicated via missionary journals in late Qing dynasty
Abstract: AimTo find out the origin of calculating technology communicating via journals in late Qing Dynasty, provide literature support for the mathematics and evolution research in Chinese culture area. Methods Exclusive method was used to confirm the representative and uniqueness of Shanghai Serial and The Chinese Scientific Magazine through the investigation of 5 journals between 1833 and 1900. Based on the background of interflow between Chinese and western mathematics, the original document analysis research was used. ResultsThe new computer in Shanghai Serial in 1857 first communicated the difference engine which was invented by Babbage and Scheutz in China, then in Japan. The difference engine calculated integral involution with linear method of finite difference, it was mechanical drive and printed the results on paper. The calculator illustration in The Chinese Scientific Magazine in 1876 first