OBERVATOIRE DE PEKING / tiré du Pere le Comte
date: label: date made
content: 1696
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving was published as plate VI in the <i>Nouveau Mémoire sur l’État Présant de la Chine</i> (Paris, 1696) written by Louis le Comte (1655-1729), a Jesuit who spent time in the Far East. It depicts the western-style instruments that were built under the direction of the Flemish Jesuit missionary, Ferdinand Verbiest. The inscriptions at bottom read “Boyet delin” and “Baquoy sculp” and “T. VI. No xx.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319246
label: accession number
content: 236083
label: catalog number
content: 319246
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 10 in; 17.78 cm x 25.4 cm