Ferdinand Verbiest, SJ (9 October 1623 – 28 January 1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near...

Verbiest or Verbist is a Flemish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China Theophiel Verbist...

contributed significantly to the reformation of China's calendar. Father Ferdinand Verbiest contributed to China's understanding of its geography and helped China...

clockwork-driven carriage. The first steam-powered vehicle was designed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was...

western sinologists Matteo Ricci, Johann Adam Schall von Bell and Ferdinand Verbiest, among many famous scholars of the time. The College was the base...

Map of the World, was a map of the world developed by Jesuit father Ferdinand Verbiest during his mission in China in 1674. A copy is in the Hunterian Museum...

Schall (center), Ferdinand Verbiest (right); below Xu Guangqi and his granddaughter Candide Hiu Jesuit missionary Ferdinand Verbiest. This is an enlargement...

entitled Kunyu Quantu (Universal Map of the World), in Nanjing. In 1674, Ferdinand Verbiest developed the Kunyu Quantu, a similar map, but with various improvements...

Portrait of the Flemish astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest who became Head of the Mathematical Board and Director of the Observatory of the Chinese emperor...

observatory was completely redesigned and refitted under the direction of Ferdinand Verbiest. Today, China continues to be active in the field of astronomy, with...

the earliest self-propelled vehicle was designed in about 1672 by Ferdinand Verbiest, a member of a Jesuit mission in China, but that it was too small...

in 264 asterisms, and the celestial globe made by Flemish Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest for the Kangxi Emperor in 1673 has 1,876 stars in 282 asterisms.[citation...

The first steam-powered vehicle was supposedly built in 1679 by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit in China. The vehicle was a toy for the Chinese...

concubine of Qing Dynasty ruler Hong Taiji (b. 1613) January 28 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (b. 1623) February 2 – Abraham...

manuscripts remains and was deposited in the Vatican Library. After he and Ferdinand Verbiest won the tests against Chinese and Islamic calendar scholars, the court...

French Jesuit mathematician and physicist (died 1757) January 28 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit astronomer in China (born 1623) October 9 – Claude...

Jesuit scholars in China. Top: Matteo Ricci, Adam Schall and Ferdinand Verbiest (1623–88); Bottom: Paul Siu (Xu Guangqi), Colao or Prime Minister of State...

Europeans Began to Study Chinese, Leuven Chinese Studies XXIV, Leuven: Ferdinand Verbiest Institute, KU Leuven. ISBN 9789081436588 Wikimedia Commons has media...

October 1610, Ricci's remains were transferred there. The graves of Ferdinand Verbiest, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, and other missionaries are also there...

Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (d. 1688) 1623 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (d. 1688) 1704 – Johann Andreas...

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colonization in the Americas, and the expedition of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan to open a route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, which...

initiated by various circles of society, in order to commemorate Father Ferdinand Verbiest, a Belgian scientist, philosopher, astronomer who had lived in China...

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He was introduced to the Kangxi Emperor by his Jesuit colleague Ferdinand Verbiest. Astronomer, geographer and mainly a musician, he was the author of...

Languages in Eighteenth-Century France. (Leuven: Leuven University Press; Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation, Leuven Chinese Studies, 2002). ISBN 9058672484. [1]  This...

Jesuit scholars in China. Top: Matteo Ricci, Adam Schaal and Ferdinand Verbiest (1623–88); Bottom: Paul Siu (Xu Guangqi), Colao or Prime Minister of State...

the tables to complete a reform of the Chinese calendar in 1635. Ferdinand Verbiest - Astronomy contests Star cartography Urania Propitia Rågstedt, Mikael...

concubine of Qing Dynasty ruler Hong Taiji (b. 1613) January 28 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (b. 1623) February 2 – Abraham...

In 1672, an impulse turbine driven small toy car was designed by Ferdinand Verbiest. A more modern version of this car was produced some time in the late...