To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 |
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... Ferdinand Verbiest , eluded his first enemies by guile . En route to China in the winter of 1656 , Verbiest's vessel was at- tacked and boarded by pirates before it had even left the Mediter- ranean . He hid , and watched in alarm as ...
... Ferdinand Verbiest , eluded his first enemies by guile . En route to China in the winter of 1656 , Verbiest's vessel was at- tacked and boarded by pirates before it had even left the Mediter- ranean . He hid , and watched in alarm as ...
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... so successful as Director of the Astronomical Bureau from 1669 to 1687. The engraving appears in Du Halde's History of China , Paris , 1735 . built large and complex instruments for the Imperial observatory ;. Le Pere Ferdinand Verbiest.
... so successful as Director of the Astronomical Bureau from 1669 to 1687. The engraving appears in Du Halde's History of China , Paris , 1735 . built large and complex instruments for the Imperial observatory ;. Le Pere Ferdinand Verbiest.
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... Verbiest de la compagnie de Jésus ( 1623-1688 ) , directeur de l'observatoire de Pékin ( Brussels , Palais des Académies , 1938 ) , p . 15 . 50. Ibid . , p . 5. H. Bosmans , S.J. , " Ferdinand Verbiest , directeur de l'observatoire de ...
... Verbiest de la compagnie de Jésus ( 1623-1688 ) , directeur de l'observatoire de Pékin ( Brussels , Palais des Académies , 1938 ) , p . 15 . 50. Ibid . , p . 5. H. Bosmans , S.J. , " Ferdinand Verbiest , directeur de l'observatoire de ...
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