By Michela Fontana
A biography of Matteo Ricci, an Italian and the 1st Jesuit missionary to China, who's credited as an excellent cultural mediator among China and the West and played very important medical work.
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207. 19. OS II, p. 12. 20. M. Fois, “Il Collegio Romano ai tempi degli studi del P. , p. 215. 21. R. G. Villostrada, op. , p. 72. 22. Galileo Galilei, The Assayer (1623), translated by Thomas Salusbury (1661), p. 178, as quoted in The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (2003), by Edwin Arthur Burtt (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications), p. 75. 23. Cit. in Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 31. 24. Christophorus Clavius, Euclidis Elementorum libri XV, Romae apud Vincentium Accoltum, 1574.
The margin of error was enormous. In the absence of reliable equipment to determine longitude,5 a ship faced the open sea with no precise points of reference, at the mercy of the elements, and in danger of colliding with reefs. In order to arrive safely at their destination, everyone trusted to luck and, above all, the Lord’s help. Other serious risks were run on board, where the passengers’ accommodation and sanitary conditions were at the limit of human endurance. The already confined space was crammed to the bursting point with merchandise and supplies for the voyage, including barrels of salted meat and fish, rice, hardtack, flour, dried fruit, and casks of wine.
15. Villostrada, Storia del Collegio Romano, pp. 14–15. 16. FR, book V, ch. XXI, p. 556, no. 1. 17. Mario Fois, “Il Collegio Romano ai tempi degli studi del P. Matteo Ricci,” in Atti del convegno internazionale di Studi Ricciani, Macerata-Roma, 22–25 October 1982, ed. Maria Cigliano (Macerata: Centro Studi Ricciani, 1984), p. 206. 18. M. Fois, “Il Collegio Romano ai tempi degli studi del P. Matteo Ricci,” p. 207. 19. OS II, p. 12. 20. M. Fois, “Il Collegio Romano ai tempi degli studi del P. , p.
