Ferdinand Verbiest
✓ Source-basedstableFlemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China (1623-1688)
Religious FiguresLived 1623 to 1688 · aged 64
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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.
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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 printReligious Figures born in the 1620s 6
About this person
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Religious Figures
Type
Religious Figure
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deceased
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Lived 1623 to 1688 · aged 64
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