of the Third Conference of the European Society for the History of Science was dedicated to Hallerstein and his transfer of mid-European science to Beijing and back. In recent years he has attracted the attention of Chinese historians as the creator of the most intriguing astronomic instrument at the old Beijing observatory, the spherical astrolabe, a "celestial globe". The asteroid 15071 Hallerstein is named after Hallerstein. References 1703 births 1774 deaths Carniolan mathematicians Carniolan astronomers Carniolan Jesuits Chinese mathematicians Chinese astronomers Chinese Jesuits Carniolan Christian missionaries Demographers 18th-century Carniolan people Qing dynasty people Slovenian mathematicians Slovenian astronomers Members of the French Academy of Sciences 18th-century astronomers Scientists from Ljubljana People from Mengeš Jesuit missionaries in China Slovenian Roman Catholic missionaries Jesuit scientists Haller von Hallerstein