- Jean de
Fontaney (1643–1710) was a
French Jesuit who led a
mission to
China in 1687. Jean de
Fontaney had been a
teacher of
mathematics and astronomy...
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Jesuit missionaries to the
court of the
Kangxi Emperor in 1685: Jean de
Fontaney,
Joachim Bouvet, Jean-François Gerbillon,
Louis Le Comte, and
Claude de...
- parti****ted in the 1687
French Jesuit mission to
China under Jean de
Fontaney. He
arrived in
China on 7
February 1688. He
returned to
France in 1691...
- Colombéraz, Concaby, Corney, Extillian-Dessous, Extillian-Dessus, Fabioles,
Fontaney, La Grangiaz, Ivéry, Liscoz, Le Magnin, Mounot, Oley, Perruchon, Le Pian...
- by
Gottfried Kirch. A
French Jesuit scientific mission led by Jean de
Fontaney arrives in China.
Simon de la Loubère
introduces the
Siamese method for...
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missionaries to China, sent by
Louis XIV of France,
under Superior Jean de
Fontaney.
Before setting out for
their destination, he and his ****ociates were admitted...
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January 4 (NS) –
Isaac Newton,
English physicist (died 1727) Jean de
Fontaney,
French Jesuit mathematician and
astronomer (died 1710)
Pierre Dionis,...
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Tachard was sent in 1685 with five
other Jesuits under Superior Jean de
Fontaney, on a
first French emb****y to Siam led by
Chevalier de
Chaumont and François-Timoléon...
- five
Jesuits sent by Louis XIV to
China were from the Collège: Jean de
Fontaney, the
Superior of the mission, who had been a
professor of
mathematics there...
- "mathematicians" to
China in an
attempt to
break the
Portuguese predominance: Jean de
Fontaney (1643–1710),
Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730), Jean-François
Gerbillon (1654–1707)...
