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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Jacques Dupuis, Francois d'Aguilon, Ferdinand Verbiest, Richard De Smet, Heribert Rosweyde, Pierre Johanns, Philippe Couplet, Pierre-Jean De Smet, John Berchmans, Victor de Buck, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Camille Bulcke, Robert Antoine, Louis Lambillotte, Peter Jan Beckx, Daniel Seghers, Eugene Lafont, Georges Dandoy, Everard Mercurian, Cornelius a Lapide, Pierre Fallon, Constant Lievens, Oscar Sevrin, Charles Felix Van Quickenborne, Paul Goethals, Albert d'Orville, Jean Bolland, Jacques Bonfrere, Leonardus Lessius, Hippolyte Delehaye, Henri Lammens, Gregoire de Saint-Vincent, Antoine Thomas, Joseph Marechal, Charles de Noyelle, Roger Lenaers, Andre Schott, Jean-Charles de la Faille, Francois-Xavier de Feller, Peter Joseph Arnoudt, Augustin de Backer, Philippe Alegambe, Francis Coster, Godfrey Henschen, Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa, Andre Tacquet, Daniel Papebroch, Charles Malapert, William Stanyhurst, Henry Robert Stephens, Giles de Coninck, Balthasar Cordier, Francois Baert, Bartholomew Des Bosses, Luc Alfons de Hovre, Peter van der Bosch, Charles De Smedt, Philippe Pierson, Theodore Moret, Edward Genicot, Jacobus Tirinus, Francis Allen, Ignatius Carbonnelle. Excerpt: Father Ferdinand Verbiest (9 October 1623 - 28 January 1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tielt in Flanders, later part of the modern state of Belgium. He is known as Nan Huairen ( ) in Chinese. He was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer and proved to the court of Kangxi Emperor that European astronomy was more accurate than Chinese astronomy. He then corrected the Chinese calendar and was later asked to rebuild and re-equip the Beijing Ancient Observatory, being given the role of Head of the Mathematical Board and Director of the Observatory. He became close friends with the Kang...