Article ID: CBB000014355

Tycho Brahe in China: The Jesuit mission to Peking and the iconography of European instrument-making processes (1984)

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Description On the new instruments, based on those of Brahe, Ferdinand Verbiest had built in the late 1660s to re-equip the Imperial Observatory in Peking.


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Authors & Contributors
Golvers, Noël
Verbiest, Ferdinand
Swerdlow, Noel M.
Jardine, Nicholas
Zampieri, Luca
Voelkel, James R.
Concepts
Astronomy
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Cosmology
Comets; meteors; meteorites
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Mathematics
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
18th century
20th century
Places
China
Europe
Macau (China)
Italy
Korea
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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