Born: Portugal, 1574
Died: China, 1659
Jesuit missionary Emmanuel Diaz wrote an astronomy book in Chinese, T’ien-wen liieh (1615), in which he introduced the Ming Dynasty to the telescope (but without mentioning Galileo Galilei’s name).
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Yang Manuo
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Henderson, J. B. (1986). Ch’ing Scholars’ Views of Western Astronomy. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 46(1): 121.
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(2007). Diaz [Dias], Emmanuel [the Younger]. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_9046
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