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    Michał Piotr Boym, SJ (Chinese: 卜彌格; pinyin: Bǔ Mígé; c. 1612 – 1659) was a Polish Jesuit missionary to China, scientist and explorer. He was an early...
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    to: Michał Boym (1612–1659), Polish Jesuit Benedykt Boym [pl] (1629–1670), Polish Catholic priest, Jesuit , author of theological works Svetlana Boym, Curt...
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    version (in a 1944 reprint) has lechías. Kajdański E (1999). "Flora Chin". Michał Boym: ambasador Państwa Środka (in Polish). Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza. p...
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    European record of the species might have been in the 17th century by Michał Boym, a Polish jesuit, orientalist, politician, and missionary to China. He...
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    medicinal plants growing in Denmark. The Flora Sinensis by the Polish Jesuit Michał Boym is another early example of a book titled "Flora". However, despite its...
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    Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer, founder of lunar topography; Michał Boym (1612–1659), orientalist, cartographer, naturalist and diplomat in Ming...
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  • van de Ven Erik Zürcher (1928–2008) Rewi Alley Henry Henne (1918–2002) Michał Boym Gaspar da Cruz (c.1520–1570), author of the first book on China in Western...
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    Yongli court along with Michał Boym in the late 1650s. Zheng and Boym stayed in Venice and Rome in 1652–55. Zheng worked with Boym on the transcription and...
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    century, notable Polish Jesuit missionaries Michał Boym and Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki arrived to China. Boym significantly expanded the knowledge of China...
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    Michał Boym, a Jesuit missionary to China, provided a 1655 report on durian to European scholars.[citation needed]...
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    century, notable Polish Jesuit missionaries Michał Boym and Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki arrived to China. Boym significantly expanded the knowledge of China...
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  • by Peter Jackson in 1990. Chronology of European exploration of Asia Michał Boym Benedict of Poland Now French Flanders in the Hauts-de-France région...
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    C. cassia (top left) depicted by Michał Boym (1655)...
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    (1656–1730) – Jesuit sinologist and cartographer who did his work in China Michał Boym (c. 1612 – 1659) – Jesuit who was one of the first westerners to travel...
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  • describing the plants native to China Flora Sinensis, a 1656 book by Michał Boym Fauna of China This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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  • Helena Wang (the "honorary mother"(孝正皇太后王氏) of the Yongli emperor) to the Pope with a request for help. November 1650. Latin translation by Michał Boym....
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    baptized as Roman Catholics by Jesuits Andreas Wolfgang Koffler and Michał Boym. A novel was written about them by Robert Elegant. Other Southern Ming...
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  • translation was carried out by Michał Boym and two young Chinese Christians who visited Rome in the 1650s and 1660s: Boym's traveling companion Andreas Zheng...
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     21.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Kalisz, Michał (2009). "Rzeszowska Golgota". Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej (in Polish)...
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    Dowager Helena Wang (the "honorary mother" of the Yongli Emperor) to the Pope with a request for help. November 1650. Latin translation by Michał Boym....
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    accounting for the tones, was not lost, however. It was used e.g. by Michał Boym and his two Chinese assistants in the first publication of the original...
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    Yunnan, and Burma. The Jesuits Andreas Wolfgang Koffler and, later, Michał Boym stayed for some time at his court. The Qing viceroy of Liangguang relocated...
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    Michał Boym's drawing of, probably, the sugar-apple, in his Flora Sinensis (1655)...
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    known as the Biernacki Reaction. Michał Borysiekiewicz: invented the first "electronic eye" for blind people. Michał Boym: 17th-century Jesuit missionary...
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    King of Poland, John II Casimir, founded the University of Lviv (1661). Michał Boym, Polish Jesuit missionary to China, scientist and explorer; he is notable...
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    Innocent X, requesting aid. She gave the letters to Jesuit missionary Michał Piotr Boym, who, accompanied by two Chinese, set sail from Macao by the end of...
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    the Polish army Naftali Botwin, political militant and labor activist Michał Boym (ca. 1612–1659), Jesuit missionary in China, known for his travels and...
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    first Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary, published in Rome in 1651. Michał Boym (1643) Teacher at the College, author of numerous works on Asian fauna...
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  • currently plays for China League One side Guangdong South China Tiger Michał Boym (Chinese: 卜彌格; pinyin: Bǔ Mígé; c. 1612 – 1659) was a Polish Jesuit missionary...
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    warrant for his arrest. The Zhengzitong was published. The Polish Jesuit Michał Boym first introduced the heliocentric model of the solar system into Chinese...
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