Guangqi and his Italian Jesuit associate Matteo Ricci in 1607, during the late Ming Dynasty. Influence Guo Shoujing was cited by Tang Shunzhi 唐順之 (1507–1560) as an example of solid practical scholarship, anticipating the rise of the Changzhou School of Thought and spread of the "evidential learning". Asteroid 2012 Guo Shou-Jing is named after him, as is the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope near Beijing. See also History of Beijing References Citations Sources Asiapac Editorial. (2004). Origins of Chinese Science and Technology. Translated by Yang Liping and Y.N. Han. Singapore: Asiapac Books Pte. Ltd. . Engelfriet, Peter M. (1998). Euclid in China: The Genesis of the First Translation of Euclid's Elements in 1607 & Its Reception Up to 1723. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. . Ho, Peng Yoke. (2000). Li, Qi, and Shu: An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China. Mineola: Dover Publications. . Needham, Joseph (1986). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd. Restivo, Sal. (1992). Mathematics in Society and History: Sociological Inquiries. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. . O'Connor, J. J., and E. F. Robertson. "Guo Shoujing." School of Mathematics and Statistics. Dec. 2003. University of St. Andrews, Scotland. 7 Dec. 2008 <http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Guo_Shoujing.html>. "China." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 24 Nov. 2008 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-71727>. Kleeman, Terry, and Tracy Barrett, eds. The Ancient Chinese World. New York, NY: Oxford UP, Incorporated, 2005. Shea, Marilyn. "Guo Shoujing - 郭守敬." China Experience. May 2007. University of Maine at Farmington. 15 Nov. 2008 <http://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/astronomy/tianpage/0018Guo_Shoujing6603w.html >. "China." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 24 Nov. 2008 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-71735>. External links Article on the Shoushi calendar from the National University of Singapore Culture story site Guo Shoujing at the University of Maine Article about Guo Shoujing by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson at St Andrews University Biography of Guo Shoujing 1231 births 1314 deaths 1316 deaths 13th-century Chinese astronomers 13th-century Chinese mathematicians 14th-century Chinese astronomers 14th-century Chinese mathematicians Engineers from Hebei Hydraulic engineers Mathematicians from Hebei Mongol Empire scholars Politicians from Xingtai Scientists from Hebei Yuan dynasty politicians