Today’s featured entry from the Vatican Observatory Faith and Science pages:
“Jesuit Astronomers in Beijing 1601-1805” (CLICK HERE for it)
This 1994 article by Agustín Udías in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society provides an overview of two hundred years of astronomical and Jesuit history in China. Jesuit astronomers worked in Beijing from 1601 to 1805 and occupied posts as directors of the Astronomical Observatory and presidents of the Board of Astronomy. During this time, they carried out an unprecedented transfer of scientific knowledge between Europe and China, especially in the fields of astronomy and mathematics.
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