Photo: Observatory of Ferdinand Verbiest

Flemish Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest built, among a lot of other things, a number of astronomical instruments for the Chinese emperor K’ang Hsi. The emperor later made him a mandarine of the highest grade.

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