A shared view of the heavens

Martin Kemp
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Martin Kemp: Martin Kemp is research professor in the history of art at the University of Oxford, OX1 1PT, UK.

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7203, 405-405

Abstract: A woodcut of Ferdinand Verbiest, the Kangxi Emperor's Flemish astronomer and mastermind of Beijing's Ancient Observatory, records a remarkable seventeenth-century cultural exchange. Martin Kemp explains.

Date: 2008
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