Ulrich Libbrecht en Willy vande Walle ; met medewerking van Noël Golvers ... [et al.].
Includes bibliographical references.

The Christian mission in China in the Verbiest era : some aspects of the missionary approach / Noël Golvers (ed.).
Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Preface / Jeroom Heyndrickx -- Introduction / Noël Golvers -- Ferdinand Verbiest's Qiongli xue 窮理學 (1683 ) / Adrian Dudink and Nicolas Standaert -- Verbiest's introduction of Aristoteles Latinus (Coimbra) in China: new Western evidence / Noël Golvers -- Explaining the sacrament of penance in seventeenth-century China: an essay of Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688) / John W. Witek -- The reaction of scholars to the work of Ferdinand Verbiest during the Kangxi-Qianlong reign / Xu Haisong 徐海松 -- The role of the directorate of astronomy in the Catholic mission during the Qing period / Han Qi 韓琦 -- Some aspects of the missionary approach of Francois de Rougemont in Changshu, Jiangnan (1661-1676) / Noël Golvers.

Publishers note-- In this volume, an effort has been made to extend our research to hitherto less developed aspects of the life and work of Ferdinand Verbiest (°1623-+1688). Two of the five papers collected here concern his involvement in the translation of the Latin commentaries on Aristotle published in Coimbra, which had been begun by Furtado, Aleni and others, and which he continued and completed until its 'official' presentation to the emperor in 1683. The contents of this voluminous work, entitled Qiongli xue are analysed by N. Standaert & A. Dudink (Leuven) on the basis of an (incomplete) copy of the manuscript, whereas N. Golvers (Leuven) describes its growth process out of a series of references in 'Western' sources; again each approach complements the other, and the flaws of one type of source are balanced by the virtues of the other. Verbiest's purely pastoral work is represented by this treatise 'on the sacrament of penance' (Goaojie yuanyi [sic], i.e. Gaojie yuanyi), which is analysed in depth by J.W. Witek (Washington DC). On the other hand there is Verbiest's relation to the calendar problem and the Astronomical Bureau (Qintianjian), so often studied without ever exhausting the subject; his work is appropriately described in terms of the 'history of science', as a key moment in the transmission of Western astronomical knowledge to the Far East. In his paper, however, Xu Haisong (Hangzhou) investigates the reception of Verbiest's learning in the milieu of the traditional Bureau, mainly on the basis of Chinese primary sources. The presence of more specific Christian elements in the same Bureau can be pointed out during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, when it even exerts some influence on contemporary Chinese Christianity, in such dossiers as the Rites Controversy. (Han Qi, Beijing). But the Jesuit mission was far more than the mission of Beijing. The scene beyond the capital is present in this issue in a description of the missionary approach applied in Suzhou Prefecture (Jiangnan Province) by Franciscus de Rougemont (°1624-+1676) - a former fellow of F. Verbiest in the Flemish Jesuit colleges, and always in contact with him in China as well. Here again Western documents are the almost exclusive sources, illustrating many aspects of the Jesuit presence in the Chinese interior.

R.A Blondeau ; met een historische inleiding van U. Libbrecht en een iconografie van N. Halsberghe.
Bibliography: p. 142-143.

Ferdinand Verbiest, 1623-1688 : een Vlaamse zendeling aan het Chinese Hof / U.J. Libbrecht.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Deze brochure werd uitgegeven door de Kredietbank ter gelegenheid van het Verbiestjaar 1988, in haar culturele brochurenreeks"--Prelim.
Cover title omits dates. Dates on t.p. in parentheses (brackets) and OCLC rec'd uses comma.

Ferdinand Verbiest and Jesuit science in 17th century China : an annotated edition and translation of the Constantinople manuscript (1676) / Noël Golvers and Efthymios Nicolaidis.
Jointly published: Athens : Institute for Neohellenic Research ; Leuven : Ferdinand Verbiest Institute.
In English and Latin.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-378) and index.

"This book contains two manuscript texts of Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688), written in 1676 in Beijing to the attention of the Russian tsar, and brought by the legate Nicolas Spathary Milescu to Moscow. Both texts represent the oldest layer of the Astronomia Europaea corpus, and were until recently forgotten. Their recent discovery was in the form of a manuscript copy, which Chysanthos Notaras had made them in Moscow in 1693. The manuscripts have since then been kept in library of the Metochion of the patriarchate of Jerusalem in Constantinople. In this publication, the authors are reconstituting the Latin text, translating it in English and annotating it. In the Introduction, the manuscripts are situated within the corpus of Verbiest's Latin writings, and are depicted both the parts that were afterwards re-cycled in the well-known Compendium Latinum and Astronomia Europaea edition (Dilingen, 1687), and those that were eventually omitted. Moreover, the story of the Moscow manuscript, and especially that of its Constantinopolitan copy - until now the only remaining testimonium of it - is traced. This description also reveals an until now unknown reception of 17th century Jesuit astronomy, mechanics and physics in post-Byzantine Russia and South-Eastern Europe."--Publisher's description.

Local access dig.pdf. [Golvers-verbiest Jesuit science.pdf]

Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese heaven : the composition of the astronomical corpus, its diffusion and reception in the European republic of letters / Noël Golvers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 568-610) and index.

"This book describes more than 220 copies, nearly all of European provenance, of various astronomical publications by Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623 - 1688), either xylographical copies sent from Peking (reports, instrument drawings, eclipse maps, ephemeredes; stellar maps), or copies of Astronomia Europaea. This multiplies the number of known copies by ten. The first part of this book describes the characteristics of this astronomical corpus - one of the most spectacular bibliographical testimonia of the Jesuit presence in 17th - 18th century China, and disentangles the complex mutual interrelationship between the various items of this corpus. Moreover, by investigating handwritten dedications and owner's marks, material indications and external testimonia, Golvers sketches the history of the shipments of these documents to Europe, connecting them to the late 1670s, to Ph. Couplet's European 'tour' (1683 - 1692) and to the presence of A. Thomas, S.J. in Peking (late-1685 - 1709).

Behind all these shipments, there is the personal effort of F. Verbiest, and his own handwriting can be recognized in many pieces. After his death, also the French and German Jesuits in Peking continued this diffusion process, albeit to a lesser extent, in their relations with France, the German countries, and St. Petersburg. In the last part of this monograph, several cases are discussed which illustrate how in the 17th - 18th centuries European scholars 'received' these documents, for their astronomical, sinological, historical, linguistic or purely bibliophile aspect. In this part of the inquiry, unknown aspects of the history of many early Chinese collections in Europe are discussed. All in all, this research measures, for the first time, the penetration of Jesuit publications on China in contemporary Europe in quantitative and geographical-historical terms. It also traces the different motivations of these dispatches (i.e. public relations, apology for the particular evangelization methods; offering bibliophile curios in return for support).

This abundantly illustrated publication represents not only a substantial contribution to this history of the Jesuit mission in China and the methods applied, but is also an advancement in our knowledge of the history of western astronomy in East Asia, and of the Sino-Jesuit printed materials preserved in European collections."--Publisher note, p. [4] of cover.

Sections of this title available on Google Books.
Review: N. Sivin, Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 36, part 2, p. 240 (May 2005).

The history of the relations between the Low Countries and China in the Qing era (1644-1911) / edited by W.F. Vande Walle ; co-editor, Noël Golvers.
Revised papers from at a conference held in September 1995 sponsored by the Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation.
Includes bibliographical references.
"The genesis of the present colume was a conference entitled 'The History of the Relations between the Low Countries and China in the Qing Era (1644-1911),' which was organized by the Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation in Leuven in September 1995."—p. [4] of cover.

Preface – Introduction / W.F. Vande Walle.
I. Some Lesser Known Contributions of Ferdinand Verbiest Verbiest, Spathar and Chrysanthos: The Spread of Verbiest's Science to Eastern Europe / E. Nicolaïdis -- An Evaluation of F. Verbiest's Account of his Journey to Manchuria in 1682, its Errors and Problems / T. Pang
II. Antoine Thomas and the Society of Jesus in China Antoine Thomas's and George David's Maps of Asia / E. Lo Sardo -- The Role of Antoine Thomas, SJ, (1644-1709) in Determining the Terrestrial Meridian Line in Eighteenth-Century China / J.W. Witek -- Antoine Thomas, SJ, and his Mathematical Activities in China: A Preliminary Research through Chinese Sources / Han Qi -- Thomas and Tournon: Mission and Money / Cl. von Collani -- François Noël, SJ, and the Chinese Rites Controversy / P. Rule -- Deux Lazaristes, originaires de la région de Chimay, émissaires de Louis XVI à la cour impériale de Pékin: 1785-1812 / M.-J. Ghislain.
III. Dutch Qing Connections Missionaries, the Low Countries and their Dependencies, as Described in Xie Sui's Manchu "Pictures of Tribute-Bearers" / G. Stary -- Qing Dynasty China in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Literature: 1644-1700 / E. van Kley -- The Dutch Foundations of the Gützlaff Mission in China: 1823-1851 / J.G. and R.G. Lutz -- Missionary Relations between the Dutch East Indies and China: 1807-1942 / K. Steenbrink -- Shandong Missions and the Dutch Connection: 1860-1919 / R.G. Tiedemann
IV. Scheut in China The Spread of the CICM Mission in the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Mongolia (1865-1911): a General Overview / S. Lievens -- "The Most Unfruitful Mission in the World" : CICM Fathers Frans and Jozef Hoogers in Xinjiang: 1895-1922 / B. Gorissen -- Virgins in Central Mongolia / R. Renson -- The Religious Case of Fengzhen District: Reclamation and Missionary Activities in Caqar during the Late Qing Dynasty / P. Taveirne
V. Belgium and Chinese Modernization Belgian Treaties with China and Japan under King Leopold I / W.F. Vande Walle -- Sino-Belgian Relations during the Reign of Leopold II: A Brief Historical Account Based on Chinese Documents / Lin Jinshui -- The Bejing-Hankou Railroad and Commercial Development in North China, 1905-1937: A Case-Study of the Impact of Belgian Investment in China / Chang Jui-te -- Les étudiants chinois en Begique de 1900 à 1940 / Cl. Soetens.

Mythistory in Sino-Western contacts : Jesuit missionaries and the pillars of Chinese Catholic religion / Min-sun Chen.
Includes bibliographical references.
"This collection of ten published articles and two revised preliminary papers were written between the years of 1966 and 1996....reflected my understanding of the seventeenth-century historical facts and their meaning in the history of Sino-Western cultural contacts."—preface.
Older articles in Wade-Giles romanization.

1. The confrontation of mythistories in seventeenth-century Sino-Western contacts. -- 2. Hsu Kuang-ch’i (1562-1633). -- 3. Hsu Kuang-ch’i (1562-1633) and his image of the West. -- 4. Adam Schall, Hsu Kuang-ch’i and Li T’ien-ching. -- 5. Ferdinand Verbiest and the geographical works by Jesuits in Chinese, 1584-1674. -- 6. The conversion of Li Zhizao (1565-1630) : an inquiry into reasons. -- 7. Li Chih-tsao and the T’ien-hsueh ch’u-han. -- 8. T’ien-hsueh ch’u-han and Hsi-hsueh fan: the common bond between Li Chih-tsao and Giulio Aleni. -- 9. Re-evaluating the Jesuit contributions to Chinese scientific knowledge in the seventeenth-century. -- 10. China in the early seventeenth-century: Alvarez Semedo’s History of the Great and Renowned Monarchy of China. -- 11. Martino Martini and his History of the Manchu Conquest of China. -- 12. Philippine sources of Palafox y Mendoza’s History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars.

The Verbiest celestial globe in China (Beijing) and Europe (Leuven-Belgium) : symbol of China-Europe scientific and cultural exchange / by Yi Shitong and by Jerome Heyndrickx.
"Notes on the Celestial Globe made in Beijing by Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688) and on the identical bronzen replica brought from Beijing to Leuven and inaugurated on June 2, 1989 by his Excellency Ambassador Liu Shan."
At head of cover title: KU Leuven China-Europe Institute.