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    Xu Guangqi or Hsü Kuang-ch'i (April 24, 1562 – November 8, 1633), also known by his baptismal name Paul or Paul Siu, was a Chinese agronomist, astronomer...
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    The tomb of Xu Guangqi is the burial site of Xu Guangqi (24 April 1562 – 10 November 1633), a prominent late Ming dynasty statesman, scholar, and leader...
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  • pinyin: Guāngqǐ Xúexìao; Hokkien: Kông Khē Hák Hàu; meaning: Guāngqǐ School), a Chinese-language Filipino school named after Xu Guangqi Lu Guangqi (simplified...
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    officials to Catholicism. He also worked with several Chinese elites, such as Xu Guangqi, in translating Euclid's Elements into Chinese as well as the Confucian...
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    dynasty (618–907), and the works of contemporaneous authors such as Xu Guangqi, Xu Xiake, and Song Yingxing were often technical and encyclopedic, the...
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    The Xu Guangqi Memorial Hall (徐光启纪念馆) is a memorial and museum for the 17th-century Chinese scholar Xu Guangqi. It is located besides the tomb of Xu Guangqi...
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    Christianity, during the 16th and 17th century Jesuit China missions: Guāngqǐ (Wade–Giles: Hsü Kuang-ch'i; 徐光啟, 1562–1633) of Shanghai Lǐ Zhīzǎo [zh]...
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    in the traditional system. With European contact in the 16th century, Xu Guangqi, an astronomer of the late Ming dynasty, introduced another 23 asterisms...
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    state of Cao Wei Xu Beihong (徐悲鴻; Wade–Giles: Hsü Pei-hung 1895 – 1953), also known as Ju Péon, prominent modern Chinese painter Xu Guangqi, Chinese scholar-bureaucrat...
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    was classified among the Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu) by Xu Guangqi, based on knowledge of western star charts.[citation needed] USS Eridanus...
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    Xujiahui (redirect from XuJiaHui)
    means "Xu family junction" - more precisely, "property of Xu family at the junction of two rivers". The "Xu family" refers to the family of Xu Guangqi (Hsü...
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    Bar-le-Duc (French) 1606, Jan Pieterszoon Dou (Dutch) 1607, Matteo Ricci, Xu Guangqi (Chinese) 1613, Pietro Cataldi (Italian) 1615, Denis Henrion (French)...
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  • Academy in the Qi capital of Linzi. The Ming dynasty agricultural scientist Xu Guangqi frequently cited the Guanzi and the Xunzi. The Guanzi was still listed...
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    Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci worked with several Chinese elites, such as Xu Guangqi, in translating Euclid's Elements into Chinese....
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    developed. During the late Ming dynasty, the Chinese Emperor appointed Xu Guangqi in 1629 to be the leader of the ShiXian calendar reform. Assisted by Jesuits...
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    Saint Candida the Elder, in whose honor she was named, Xu was the granddaughter of Xu Guangqi, who had converted to Christianity four years previously...
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    Matteo Ricci (left) and Xu Guangqi in the 1607 Chinese publication of Euclid's Elements...
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    and the unseen stars were classified among the Southern Asterisms by Xu Guangqi, based on his study of western star charts. However, most of the brightest...
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    more accurate astrological measurements. In one case, Ricci, along with Xu Guangqi and Li Zhizhao, both of whom he had converted, would translate both Euclid...
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    residential developments. Zikawei ("Xu's Confluence", or "Xujiahui" in Mandarin), an area named after the family of Xu Guangqi and the confluence of two local...
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    the deceased Johann Schreck on a reform of the Chinese calendar. With Xu Guangqi, he participated in modifying the Chinese calendar and compiling what...
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  • Pescara. The Galileo-Xu Guangqi meetings The Galileo-Xu Guangqi meetings have been created in the name of Galileo and Xu Guangqi, the collaborator of...
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    Ricci (left), Adam Schall (center), Ferdinand Verbiest (right); below Xu Guangqi and his granddaughter Candide Hiu Jesuit missionary Ferdinand Verbiest...
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    dual publication of Euclid's Elements by Chinese official and astronomer Xu Guangqi (1562–1633) and the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610). After the...
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    period of the Ming dynasty, the agricultural scientist and mathematician Xu Guangqi (1562–1633 CE) introduced 23 additional constellations near to the Celestial...
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    season. The raincoat being an absolutely indispensable asset, famed writer Xu Guangqi recorded a popular proverb during the Ming: "No raincoat, no going out...
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  • brilliant polymathic scientist and mathematician of the Song dynasty. Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), Chinese mathematician, agricultural scientist, astronomer...
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    Republic of China, many famous artists including Zhang Daqian, Liu Haisu, Xu Beihong, Feng Zikai, and Yan Wenliang settled in Shanghai, allowing it to...
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    was historically land owned by Ming dynasty bureaucrat and scientist Xu Guangqi, and later donated to the Roman Catholic Church. It and Luwan District...
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    (小斗; Xiǎodǒu) among the Southern Asterisms (近南極星區; Jìnnánjíxīngōu) by Xu Guangqi. Chamaeleon is sometimes also called the Frying Pan in Australia. Chamaeleon...
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