Subject: Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Astronomia Europaea of Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (Dillingen, 1687): text, translation, notes and commentaries. [Astronomia Europaea. English & Latin]
AuthorVerbiest, Ferdinand 南懷仁, 1623-1688Golvers, Noël
PlaceNettetal
PublisherSteyler Verlag
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish, Latin
TypeBook, Digital Book (PDF)
SeriesMonumenta Serica monograph series ; 28
ShelfHallway Cases, Digital Archives
Call NumberQB36.V4813 1993
Description547 p.: ill., facsims.; 24 cm. + pdf
Note

The Astronomia Europaea of Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (Dillingen, 1687): text, translation, notes and commentaries / Noël Golvers, [editor].
"Jointly published by Institut Monumenta Serica, Sankt Augustin and Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation, Leuven."
Translation of: Astronomia Europaea svb Imperatore Tartaro Sinico Cám Hý appellato ex umbra in lucem revocata.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-527) and index.

***Graphic resource: facsimile reprints of original plates from Astronomea Europea, Yixiang tu 儀象圖 and Xichao ding'an 西朝定安 ; maps of Beijing, Imperial and Forbidden cities in Verbiest's time.
Keywords: Solar observations, lunar observations, astronomical mathematics, calendar and calendrical technology; court astronomers, Beijing ; meteorology, optics, hydraulics, music.

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ISBN3-8050-0327-7
LCCN94-207284
Huanyou quan 寰有詮. [De Coelo et Mundo. De caelo. Chinese]
AuthorFurtado, Francisco 傅汎際, 1589-1653Li Zhizao 李之藻, 1565-1630Aristotle
Place[China : s.n]
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
Series
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberQB36.F9 1628d
DescriptionDig.pdf. [59 frames [116 p.]]
NoteHuanyou quan 寰有詮 / [Fu Fanji yiyi ; Li Zhizao daci傅汎際譯義 ; 李之藻達辭]
LC edition, see World Digital Library.
Partial translation of the Coimbra commentary of Aristotle’s De coelo

“….The Coimbra commentaries on Aristotle as translated by Francisco Furtado (Fu Fanji 傅汎際, 1589-1653) and Li Zhizao (李之藻, 1565-1630)….present, among other things, physiological explanations of the movement of the blood by the heart beat, of the working of the brain, and of memory, and introduce the doctrine of the four humors.” Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 791. See also pp. 607, 713.

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Huanyou quan 寰有詮. [Traité de l'univers. De caelo. BnF Chinois 3384]
AuthorFurtado, Francisco 傅汎際, 1589-1653Li Zhizao 李之藻, 1565-1630Aristotle
Place[China : s.n]
PublisherLingzhu xuanqi 靈竺玄棲
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
Series
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberQB36.F98 1628d
Descriptionpdf [6 juan]
NoteHuanyou quan 寰有詮 / (葡)傅汎際譯解 ; 李之藻達辭.
Cat. imp., liv. 125, f. 35.Par le P. Francisco Furtado (1587-1653) et Li Zhi zao. Préface de ce dernier (1628). Planches gardées au pavillon Ling zhu xuan.
[中國] : 靈竺玄棲, 明崇禎元年[1628]
Partial translation of the Coimbra commentary of Aristotle’s De coelo
書前有明崇禎元年李之藻《譯序》, 刻書年據此. 目錄後題"靈竺玄棲藏板", 刻書者據此.
匡20.3×14.6公分, 9行19字, 小字雙行同, 白口, 四周雙邊. 單黑魚尾, 版心上鐫書名, 中鐫卷次, 下鐫葉數.

"....The Coimbra commentaries on Aristotle as translated by Francisco Furtado (Fu Fanji 傅汎際, 1589-1653) and Li Zhizao (李之藻, 1565-1630) ...present, among other things, physiological explanations of the movement of the blood by the heart beat, of the working of the brain, and of memory, and introduce the doctrine of the four humors.” Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 791. See also pp. 607, 713.

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Full bibliographical information see Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

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Hungai tongxian tushuo 渾蓋通憲圖說
AuthorLi Zhizao 李之藻, 1565-1630
Place---
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
SeriesSiku quanshu 四庫全書 ; 第789册
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberQB17.L5 H86d
Descriptiondig.pdf. [236 p. : ill., charts]
NoteHungai tongxian tushuo 渾蓋通憲圖說 / Li Zhizao zhuan 李之藻撰.
據文淵閣本四庫全書影印.
本書包括卷上、卷下,拆分成2冊。
影印古籍
欽定四庫全書·子部六·天文算法類.
Online at Internet Archive.
Shoushan'ge congshu edition 《守山閣叢書》本 online at Chinese Text project.
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Mingli tan shilun 名理探十倫. [Les dix catégories de la logique. BnF Chinois 3414]
AuthorFurtado, Francisco 傅汎際, 1589-1653Li Zhizao 李之藻, 1565-1630AristotleBibliothèque nationale (France). Manuscript. Chinois 3414
Place[China]
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
Series
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberB485.F98 1628d
Descriptionpdf [5 juan]
NoteHuanyou quan 寰有詮 / 傅汎際譯解 ; 李之藻達辭.
[中國] : [刻書者不詳], [明後期[1573-1644]]
匡20×14.7公分, 9行19字, 小字雙行同, 白口, 左右雙邊,單黑魚尾, 版心上鐫書名, 中鐫卷次,下鐫葉數

"....The Coimbra commentaries on Aristotle as translated by Francisco Furtado (Fu Fanji 傅汎際, 1589-1653) and Li Zhizao (李之藻, 1565-1630) ...present, among other things, physiological explanations of the movement of the blood by the heart beat, of the working of the brain, and of memory, and introduce the doctrine of the four humors.” Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 791. See also pp. 607, 713.

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Orazio Grassi and a 1623 Treatise on the sphere : astronomy and physico-mathematics at the Collegio Romano in the early seventeenth century
AuthorBartel, Kraig J.
PlaceNorman, OK
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis/Dissertation (PDF)
Series
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberQB17.G83 B38 2016d
Descriptionpdf. [vi, 67 l. : color ill. ; 28 cm.]
NoteOrazio Grassi and a 1623 Treatise on the sphere : astronomy and physico-mathematics at the Collegio Romano in the early seventeenth century / by Kraig Bartel.
Thesis (M.A., History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Oklahoma 2016).
Includes bibliographical references.

"The University of Oklahoma History of Science Collections recently acquired a 1623 manuscript which has been attributed to the Jesuit mathematician Orazio Grassi. The first section of the manuscript, entitled “Tractatus de sphaera” or “Treatise on the sphere,” is a fair copy of student notes on spherical astronomy. As such, it is a significant new primary source for understanding the teaching of astronomy at the Collegio Romano in the seventeenth century. Through a physical examination of the manuscript, critical discussion of its subject matter and comparison with other Jesuit writings, this thesis argues that Orazio Grassi was teaching physico-mathematics in his astronomy course at the Jesuit Roman College in 1623 as part of a concerted effort started by Christopher Clavius and institutionalized in Jesuit education. Jesuit educators such as Orazio Grassi were actively introducing novel observations and contemporary discoveries to astronomy students in the early seventeenth century."--Abstract

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Richan lizhi 日躔曆指. [Jap-Sin II, 27]
AuthorRho, Giacomo 羅雅谷, 1592-1638
Place---
Publisher---
CollectionARSI
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (stitch-bound 線裝本)
Series
ShelfARSI
Call NumberNOT HELD. DESCRIPTION ONLY
Description1 juan.
NoteFull bibliographic citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

JapSin II, 27
Richan lizhi 日躔曆指.
By Luo Yagu 羅雅谷 (Giacomo Rho).
One juan. Bamboo paper in one volume, European style. No date or place of publication.

The cover bears a label with the title. There is a Latin inscription that reads: “Introductio ad Astro | nomiam | a p. Jac. Rho, S.J.”
The verso of the title page mentions the collection (Xiyang xinfa lishu) and the section to which the text belongs: 西洋新法曆書,法原部,日躔, the chief compiler (Xu Guangqi): 明禮部尚書兼翰林院學士協理詹事府事加俸一級徐光啟督修, the author and reviser (Giacomo Rho and Adam Schall): 修政曆法極西耶穌會士羅雅谷撰,湯若望訂, and the proofreaders (Wu Mingzhu, Zhou Shichang, Chen Yingdeng, Zhu Guangxian, Chen Yujie, and Xu Huan): 門人鄔明著,周士昌,陳應登,朱光顯,陳于階,徐瑍受法.
There is a table of contents (three folios). The whole book consists of forty-two folios. Each half folio has nine columns, with twenty-two characters in the first column and twenty-one in the rest of the paragraph. Annotations are given in smaller type and in double lines. The title of the book and the number of the folio are given in the middle of each folio.
While consciously beholden to Copernicus and Galileo, Rho did not accept the heliocentric system, preferring to consider the assertions of these masters unproved. Possibly his hesitation was due to tactical consideration - not to disturb either the ideas held by the Chinese or the official doctrine of the Church.

Cf. Pfister, p. 191, no. 14 (Théorie du soleil); Couplet, p. 23 (Theoria Solis).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 310-311.

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Tianwen lüe 天問略
AuthorDias, Manuel 陽瑪諾, 1574-1659
PlaceShanghai 上海
PublisherShangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition初版
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (Text in Collection), Digital Book (PDF)
SeriesCongshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編 ; 1305
ShelfDigital Archives, Admin. Office Gallery
Call NumberAC149.T76 1935 v. 1305
Description105 p. : ill. ; 17.5 cm.
NoteTianwen lüe 天問略 / Yang Manuo da 陽瑪諾答.
"Ju Yihaizhuchenben yingyin 據藝海珠塵本影印"--T.p. verso. 民國25 [1936].

"Tianwen lüe 天問略 (Questions about Heaven) .... Dias’ work was devoted to descriptive cosmology rather than mathematical astronomy. [A Chinese Christian convert who collated this text was Xu Leshan 許樂善 (ca. 1544-1625/26; jinshi 1571, baptised as John in 1610).] Dias' Tianwen lüe 天問略 (Epitome of Questions on the Heavens, 1615) is best known for its appendix, in which Galileo Galilei’s (1564-1642) invention of the telescope and the new observations he made with it were reported; the details of the surface of the Moon, the phases of Venus, the four satellites of Jupiter, the objects of which Saturn’s rings are made, many stars in the Pleiades and the Milky Way. Information travelled fast from Europe to China: Galileo’s Siderius Nuncius had been published in 1610, and his observations confirmed by Jesuit astronomers of the Roman College the following year. The main body of the Tianwen lüe, however, was a description of Ptolomaic astronomy; Dias' preface pointed out that the universe described was the work of God." -- Cf. Standaert, N., Handbook of Christianity in China, pp. 404, 693, 695, 712-713.

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Yuanjing shuo 遠鏡說
AuthorSchall von Bell, Johann Adam 湯若望, 1592-1666
PlaceShanghai 上海
PublisherShangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
Series
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberQB17.S26 1936d
Descriptiondig.pdf. [31 p. : ill.]
NoteYuanjing shuo 遠鏡說 / Yuanjing shuo 遠鏡說 / Tang Ruwang [i.e. Ruowang] zuan 湯如望[i.e. 若望] 纂.
1st. section of vol. 1308 of Congshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編.
"據藝海珠塵本影印" -- T.p. verso.
民國25 [1936].
“....Yuanjing shuo 遠鏡說 (Explanation of the Telescope, 1626), by Schall, which contained the first account of the Tychonic world system in Chinese..” Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, v.1, p. 714.
See note for ARSI Japonica-Sinica edition.
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Yutui jiyan 預推紀驗. [Jap-Sin II, 45a]
AuthorVerbiest, Ferdinand 南懷仁, 1623-1688
Place---
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (Text in Collection)
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberBX1665.A2 Y47 2002 v. 6
Description1 juan. (v. 6, p. 545-590)
NoteIn: 耶穌會羅馬檔案館明清天主教文獻. Chinese Christian texts from the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus, v.6.31. Yutui jiyan 預推紀驗 / Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest).
Full citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

JapSin II, 45a
Yutui jiyan 預推紀驗.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest).
One juan. Bamboo paper, bound in European style. No date or place of publication.

The cover bears a label with the Chinese title in ink and a Latin inscription: “Praedictiones temporis | pluvium, ventorum | et eiusmodi.” A note in Latin reads: “Haec scriptio non est Pris Verbiest.” Another note by Louis Van Hée reads: “Patris Verbiest: Observatio meteorologiae. Rarus.”
The introduction (in three and one-half folios), written by Verbiest and entitled: Tianwen shiyong zhi xiaoyan 天文實用之效驗 (The efficacy of the practical use of astronomy) is dated 1682 (Kangxi 21).
There are nine columns in each half folio with twenty characters to each column. The title of the book is given in the middle of each folio with the number of the folio below the fish-tail. The whole book consists of twenty-two folios. Headings for each paragraph are given on the top margin.

Verbiest writes: “Here we try to give the results of the astronomical forecasting which the Imperial Observatory has already sent to His Majesty, from the eighth to the ninteenth year of the Kangxi reign [1669–1680], dividing it into eight sections per year, as the effective practice of astronomy and as a positive proof of the accuracy of our calendars . . .” 今將自康熙八年至十九年每歲八節,預推天象之效驗,開列於後,以為天文實用之效,及預測推曆法所為可準之實據焉 . . . (Yutui jiyan, folio 1). It is clear that this book is the result of astronomical experiments made in a period of eleven years.
Pfister (pp. 352–362) does not mention this book. It is found, however, in the addenda and corrigenda (p. 31*): “p. 354, ajouter . . . 預推紀驗 Yu tch’ouei ki yen, 1 k. -- Prédiction des phénomènes.» Ibid. [Cordier 1901], no. 359.”

Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 349.

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