Abstract
The article focuses on the report of the International Workshop on “17th Century Polish Jesuits in China: Michal Boym, Jan Mikolaj Smogulecki, and Andrzej Rudomina” held at the University School of Philosophy and Education in Poland organized by the Monumenta Serica Institute (Sinological Institute for Chinese Studies). The author focuses on the Chinese philosophy lecture by Professor Shi Yunli about the influence of Smogulecki on Xue Fengzou, Chinese culture and science and their work on astrology and astronomy.
Highlights
For the first time in the history of the Polish Jesuits, an extended International Workshop, of high quality, has taken place at the University School of Philosophy and Education “Ignatianum”, in Kraków, focusing on the three Polish Jesuits: Michał Boym卜彌格 (1612–1659), Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki 穆尼閣 (1610–1656), and Andrzej Rudomina 庐盘石 (1596–1633) – all three of whom were missionaries in China in the 17th century
From among the lecturers speaking on Chinese philosophy, Professor Shi Yunli’s paper “Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki and Xue Fengzuo on astronomy and astrology” deserved our attention, beyond any doubt
We can say for sure that Smogulecki did two uncommon things in the book. After his fellow Jesuit Johann Adam Schall von Bell had presented to the newly established Qing dynasty the Tychonic system of calendrical astronomy laid out in the Chongzhen lishu 崇禎 曆書 (Chongzhen reign Treatises on Calendrical Astronomy) and made it the astronomical orthodoxy and a symbol of the authority of the newly established Manchu dynasty, he still decided to preach a different system among his Chinese disciples and openly claimed the superiority of this system to that of Schall von Bell, despite the fact that the credibility of Jesuit missionaries in China at the time was so subtly connected to the astronomical system they recommended to the Chinese government
Summary
For the first time in the history of the Polish Jesuits, an extended International Workshop, of high quality, has taken place at the University School of Philosophy and Education “Ignatianum”, in Kraków, focusing on the three Polish Jesuits: Michał Boym卜彌格 (1612–1659), Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki 穆尼閣 (1610–1656), and Andrzej Rudomina 庐盘石 (1596–1633) – all three of whom were missionaries in China in the 17th century.
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