Qi Han
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LOCATION: Beijing 100010, P.R. China,
Professor of history of science, Chineses Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Li Zhizao was a Chinese mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose translations of European scientific books greatly contributed to the spread of Western science in China. Originally from a military family, Li was made a jinshi (the highest scholar-official title in imperial China) in 1598. In…
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