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Matteo Ricci: The Man Who Brought Christianity To The Forbidden City | Empire Of Time (2023x125)

Air date: Aug 10, 2023

Matteo Ricci, a young Jesuit would be the first European to enter China at the end of the 16th century. Trained in geometry and algebra, he would soon discover that cosmology and the art of measuring time was at the very centre of Chinese civilization and imperial authority, the Emperor’s Mandate of Heaven.