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Johann Adam Schall von Bell

German astronomer and Jesuit missionary active in China

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    An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China, deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking / Wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking, are ingeniously describ'd, by Mr John Nievhoff ... Also an epistle of Father John Adams [i.e. J.A. Schall] their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation. With an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher. English'd, and set forth with their several sculptures, by John Ogilby. Esq.

    Johan Nieuhof | Date: 1673

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