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    Joachim Bouvet (Chinese: 白晋 or 白進, courtesy name: 明远) (July 18, 1656, in Le Mans – June 28, 1730, in Peking) was a French Jesuit who worked in China, and...
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  • director, screenwriter Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730), French Jesuit who worked in China, leading member of the Figurist movement Laurent Bouvet (1968–2021), French...
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    Jesuits, led by Joachim Bouvet (who first arrived to China in 1688), focused on China's earliest classic, the I Ching, which Bouvet viewed as the oldest...
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  • Joachim Bouvet in 1700, who had made himself an expert on the I Ching while a missionary in China, Leibniz explained his binary notation, and Bouvet demonstrated...
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    Fu Xi that dates from 9th Centry BC in China, through French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet and noted with fascination how its hexagrams correspond to the binary...
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    Scientific Revolution Leibniz University Hannover Bartholomew Des Bosses Joachim Bouvet Outline of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz bibliography...
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    Persian influences. The French figurist Jesuit missionary to China Joachim Bouvet thought that Hermes Trismegistus, Zoroaster and the Chinese cultural...
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  • by a group of Jesuit mathematicians (Jean de Fontaney (1643–1710), Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730), Louis Le Comte (1655–1728), Guy Tachard (1648–1712) and...
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    to break the Portuguese predominance: Jean de Fontaney (1643–1710), Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730), Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707), Louis Le Comte (1655–1728)...
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    A diagram of I Ching hexagrams sent to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from Joachim Bouvet. The Arabic numerals were added by Leibniz....
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    Zoroaster with Ham. The French figurist Jesuit missionary to China Joachim Bouvet thought that Zoroaster, the Chinese cultural hero Fuxi and Hermes Trismegistus...
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    A diagram of I Ching hexagrams sent to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from Joachim Bouvet. The Hindu numerals were added by Leibniz....
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    became rector of the school until 1710 after his return from China; Joachim Bouvet, who was a philosophy student in 1676, became a teacher to the Kangxi...
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    surrender to Sir Robert Holmes. February 7 – Six French Jesuit scientists, Joachim Bouvet, Jean-François Gerbillon, Louis-Daniel Lecomte, Guy Tachard, Claude...
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    missionaries to the court of the Kangxi Emperor in 1685: Jean de Fontaney, Joachim Bouvet, Jean-François Gerbillon, Louis Le Comte, and Claude de Visdelou. Louis...
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    François Joseph Bouvet (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʒozɛf buvɛ]; 1753–1832) was a French admiral. Son of René Joseph Bouvet de Précourt, a captain in...
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    June 21 – Sarah Basset, Bermudian slave, origin of legend June 28 – Joachim Bouvet, French Jesuit active in China (b. 1656) July 7 – Olivier Levasseur...
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    Pierre-François-Henri-Étienne Bouvet de Maisonneuve (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃ʁi etjɛn buvɛ də mɛzɔ̃nœv]; 28 December 1775, in Saint-Benoît...
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    His talents earned him the appreciation of his father. French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet once mentioned in a letter to King Louis XIV that the Kangxi Emperor...
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    first bishop of Quebec, was a student at the college for several years. Joachim Bouvet and Jean de Fontaney, mathematicians who had entered the service of...
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    thanks to medical expertise of Fathers Jean-François Gerbillon and Joachim Bouvet. The emperor also hand-wrote the calligraphy plaque and couplets for...
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    surrender to Sir Robert Holmes. February 7 – Six French Jesuit scientists, Joachim Bouvet, Jean-François Gerbillon, Louis-Daniel Lecomte, Guy Tachard, Claude...
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    in his correspondence with the Jesuit Joachim Bouvet, who was sent on the first French mission to China. Bouvet, in his letters, also considered Chinese...
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    16 – George Ashby, English member of Parliament (d. 1728) July 18 – Joachim Bouvet, French Jesuit active in China (d. 1730) July 20 – Johann Bernhard Fischer...
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  • other Jesuits to accompany him, all highly skilled in sciences, namely Joachim Bouvet, Jean-François Gerbillon, Louis-Daniel Lecomte, Guy Tachard, and Claude...
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    Giovanni Botero, Italian thinker, discharged from the Society in 1579 Joachim Bouvet, early missionary to China and a leading member of the Figurist movement...
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    Zhenjue Temple, including those of Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707), Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730), Dominique Parrenin (1665–1741), François Xavier d'Entrecolles...
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  • Eine wissenschaftliche Akademit für China. Briefe des Chinamissionars Joachim Bouvet S.J. an Gottfried Wilheim Leibniz und Jean-Paul Bignon über die Erforschung...
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    However, the European mission eastward did not only cause conflict. Joachim Bouvet, a theologian who held equal respect for both the Bible and the Book...
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    16 – George Ashby, English member of Parliament (d. 1728) July 18 – Joachim Bouvet, French Jesuit active in China (d. 1730) July 20 – Johann Bernhard Fischer...
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