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The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco |
 | | Here we might list just a few of the many astronomical treatises and tables that were produced by the Jesuits. |
| | Michel Benoist (1715-1774) quickly produced an accurate account of the Copernican theory and added it to the text legends of his revised world map, the Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖 of 1761. |
| | Jesuit importation of European scientific techniques not only contributed to the revision of Chinese methods, but it also stimulated Chinese scholars to look to their own scientific tradition, and to tackle the difficult task of reconstructing ancient mathematical works and scientific apparatus described in the historical record. |
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