Born Milan, (Italy), 1593
Died Beijing, China, 27 April 1638
Italian Jesuits Giacomo Rho and Johann Schall von Bell were appointed by the emperor in Beijing to reform the Chinese calendar. Rho brought the Tychonic cosmological model to China.
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Hockey, T. (2014). Rho, Giacomo. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1163
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