Ferdinand Verbiest
Flemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China (1623-1688) · Religious Figures · Died at 64
Ferdinand Verbiest, was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tielt in the County of Flanders. He is known as Nan Huairen in Chinese.
Ferdinand Verbiest is read about 116 times a day, in 29 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
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![An engraving from a French book about the Chinese empire, published in 1736. Represented from left to right:Top: Matteo Ricci, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Ferdinand VerbiestBottom: Xu Guangqi, colao or Prime Minister of State; Candide Hiu, grand-daughter of Colao Paul Siu.[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Jesuites_en_chine.jpg/330px-Jesuites_en_chine.jpg)
An engraving from a French book about the Chinese empire, published in 1736. Represented from left to right:Top: Matteo Ricci, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Ferdinand VerbiestBottom: Xu Guangqi, colao or Prime Minister of State; Candide Hiu, grand-daughter of Colao Paul Siu.[5]
Ferdinand Verbiest published the Kunyu Quantu world map in 1674.
Instruments in the Beijing Observatory. Some of them were built by Verbiest.
The Verbiest instruments on the terrace of the observatory. Photograph by Thomas Child, c. 1875.
Copy of Verbiest's celestial sphere on display at the Ferdinand Vebiest Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The steam 'car' designed by Verbiest in 1672 - from an 18th-century printAbout this person
Category
Religious Figures
Type
Religious Figure
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1623 to 1688 · aged 64
