Matteo Ricci

Matteo Ricci(6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. Quotes about In a 1581 letter, Ricci explicitly acknowledged that he was trying to understand local methods of timekeeping from an intelligent Brahmin or an honest Moor. quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189 External links Category:1552 births Category:1610 deaths Category:16th-century Italian Jesuits Category:16th-century Italian mathematicians Category:16th-century Italian writers Category:16th-century Italian male writers Category:17th-century Italian writers Category:17th-century Italian male writers Category:17th-century Italian cartographers Category:17th-century Italian mathematicians Category:17th-century Italian Jesuits Category:17th-century Italian translators Category:Catholic clergy scientists Category:Chinese–Italian translators Category:Italian emigrants to China Category:Italian Roman Catholic missionaries Category:Italian venerated Catholics Category:Italian sinologists Category:Italian slave owners Category:Italian–Latin translators Category:Jesuit missionaries in China Category:Italian missionaries in China Category:Italian Roman Catholic writers Category:Jesuit scientists Category:Latin–Italian translators Category:Italian missionary linguists Category:People from Macerata Category:Translators from Chinese Category:Venerated Catholics by Pope Francis