Image:Chinese astronomer 1675.jpg

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Creator

Name: Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (歌川国芳)

Alternative names: Ichiyusai (一勇斎)

Date of birth: 1798

Location of birth:

  • de: Tokio
  • en: Nihonbashi, Edo (Tokyo, Japan)
  • fr: Edo (Tokyo)
  • ja: 江戸日本橋 (東京)

Date of death: 1861

Location of death:

  • de: Tokio
  • en: Edo (Tokyo, Japan)
  • fr: Edo (Tokyo)
  • ja: 江戸 (東京)

Work period:

Work location:

  • de: Tokio
  • en: Edo (Tokyo, Japan)
  • fr: Edo (Tokyo)
  • ja: 江戸 (東京)

[edit] Summary

From: Brian J. Ford (1993). Images of Science: A History of Scientific Illustration, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195209834

The caption there reads:

A priest-astronomer in the Chinese tradition. A European astronomer visited China and studied their ways. He was a Jesuit priest, Ferdinand Verbiest, whose Chinese name was Nan Huai-Jen. The illustration includes contemporaneous astronomical instruments, and was painted in 1675. British Museum, Department of Japanese Antiquities 1906-12-20-1311
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Picture of the day This image was selected as a picture of the day for June 13, 2006. It was captioned as followed:

English: 1675 image of a Chinese astronomer with an elaborate armillary sphere.

Deutsch: Ein chinesischer Astronom mit einer Armillarsphäre (Darstellung von 1675).

Français : Dessin d'un astronome chinois avec une sphère armillaire, en 1675.

Español: Imagen de 1675 de un astrónomo chino con una elaborada Esfera armilar.

العربية: 1675 صورة لفلكي صيني مع كرة أرضية

Deutsch: Ein chinesischer Astronom mit einer Armillarsphäre (Darstellung von 1675).

English: 1675 image of a Chinese astronomer with an elaborate armillary sphere.

Español: Imagen de 1675 de un astrónomo chino con una elaborada Esfera armilar.

Eesti: 1675. aasta pilt Hiina astronoomist koos keeruka taevasfääri mudeliga.

Français : Dessin d'un astronome chinois avec une sphère armillaire, en 1675.

Galego: Astrónomo chinés de 1675 cunha esfera armilar

Magyar : 1675-es kép egy kínai csillagászról egy armilláris szférával

Italiano: immagine del 1675 di un astronomo cinese con una complicata sfera armillare.

日本語: 天球儀が描かれた中国の天体観測者の絵。歌川国芳作「通俗水滸伝豪傑百八人之一個 智多星呉用」。

한국어: 1675년의 중국 천문학자와 혼천의(渾天儀)

Nederlands: Afbeelding uit 1675 van een Chinese astronoom met een Armillarium of hemelbol.

Norsk (nynorsk): Eit bilete frå 1675 av ein kinesisk astronom med ein forseggjort armillarsfære.

Русский: Китайский астроном с армиллярной сферой, 1675 г.

Slovenčina: Obrázok z roku 1675 čínskeho astronóma s podrobnou armilárnou sférou.

Svenska: En kinesisk astronom med en armillarsfär, 1675.

zh-hans: 1675年的图画，一位中国天文学家和一架浑天仪。（日本人画的水浒传中的吴用）

zh-hant: 1675年的圖畫，一位中國天文學家和一部揮天儀。歌川國芳作「通俗水滸傳豪傑百八人之一個 智多星吳用」。

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