Ferdinand Verbiest
1623–1688
Flemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China (1623–1688)
astronomer · mathematician · Catholic priest
Born in Pittem
Contemporaries
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- Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
- René Descartes (1596–1650)
- Molière (1622–1673)
- John Locke (1632–1704)
- Rembrandt (1606–1669)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716)
- Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694)
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