Bellin, Jacques Nicolas: Observatoire de Peking. tiré du Pere le Comte

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Bellin, Jacques Nicolas : Observatoire de Peking. tiré du Pere le Comte

Paris, c.1750.

190 x 265mm.

Showing globes, astrolabes and armillary spheres. The Peking Observatory was equipped by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit missionary in Peking in the late 1660s. Rather than building the latest models he worked from Tycho Brahe's 'Mechanica', published eighty years before.

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