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Thenceforth K'ang-hi's benevolence towards Father Verbiest and the Christian religion increased steadily. The emperor requested the priest to construct instruments like those of Europe, and in May, 1674, Verbiest was able to present him with six, made under his direction: a quadrant, six feet in radius; an azimuth compass, six feet in diameter; a sextant, eight feet in radius; a celestial ...
Still today his laboratory can be visited. In 1658 Ferdinand Verbiest, born in Pittem, a small village in the province of West Flanders, was sent to China to evangelize the province of Shanxi. As a renowned mathematician and astronomer and thanks to his genius, he obtained the favours of Emperor Kangxi and became his personal tutor and counsellor.
Verbiest, FERDINAND, missionary and astronomer, b. at Pitthem near Courtrai, Belgium, October 9, 1623; d. at Peking, January 28, 1688. He entered the Society of Jesus on September 2, 1641, and studied theology at Seville, where he defended public theses in 1655. In 1658 with thirty-five new missionaries he accompanied Father Marti in Martini on ...
19 de jul. de 2019 · The chapter on the astronomer Fr. Ferdinand Verbiest, of the Society of Jesus, focuses on his mission work in China. It also discusses the “automobile” that he invented—a steam-powered, self-propelled toy car. Verbiest both spent time in prison in China and became a great friend of the Chinese Emperor. Click here for information from ...
Pater Ferdinand Verbiest in China. Na een slopende reis met een kaping, stormen en ziektes bereikt de Vlaamse jezuïet Ferdinand Verbiest in 1659 China. Nog geen jaar later wordt hij naar het hof van de keizer ontboden om daar te werken als astronoom. Hij raakt betrokken in tal van intriges en conflicten, maar wint ook het vertrouwen van de keizer.
13 de out. de 2023 · This was the Yale Center Beijing, an outpost of the university, and we were marking the 400th anniversary of the birth of Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit who spent much of his life at the ...
24 de dez. de 2016 · Ferdinand Verbiest was a prominent Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who served the Chinese emperor. Born in West Flanders into a family of landed gentry, Verbiest received his secondary education in Bruges and Kortrijk and after a brief stay at the Arts Faculty of Louvain University (1640/1641), became a Jesuit novice of the Flemish-Belgian province in Mechlin (1641–1643).
