Li Zhimo - Li Zhimo

A Chinese scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. His pen names were Zhenzhi and Wo Cun. His pen names included Zunyuan Jisou and Ryoan, named after his baptismal name Leon. He studied under Matteo Ricci and was baptized in 1610. In 1598 he became a Jinshi and worked for the Nanjing Ministry of Works, and in 1612 he became a junior minister at the Nanjing Taibo Temple (responsible for chariots, horses, and livestock). In addition to publishing Ricci's "Kunyu Bankoku Zenzu" and other works, he wrote many books and translations related to Western scholarship and Christianity. His translations of Clavius's astronomy and mathematics books, "Geometry of the Source" was Euclid's mathematics book, and his translations of Aristotle's physical science and logic books were "Huan You Quan" and "Ming Li Tan." "Tengaku Shokan" is a collection of books on Christianity, astronomy, geography, mathematics, and surveying. He also participated in the compilation of "Suitei Rekisho" but died before it was completed.

[Kazuhiko Miyajima]

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中国、明(みん)末の学者。字(あざな)は振之、我存。号は存園寄叟や洗礼名レオンにちなむ凉菴など。マテオ・リッチに師事し、1610年洗礼を受けた。1598年進士となり南京(なんきん)工部に勤め、1612年には南京太僕寺（車馬・牧畜を司る）少卿に至る。リッチの『坤輿万国全図(こんよばんこくぜんず)』などの刊行のほか、西洋学術やキリスト教に関する多くの著訳を行った。『乾坤(けんこん)体義』『同文算指』『渾蓋(こんがい)通憲図説』はクラビウスの天文・数学書の、『幾何原本』はユークリッドの数学書の、『寰有銓(かんゆうせん)』『名理探』はアリストテレスの自然学・論理学の訳。『天学初函』はキリスト教、天文・地理・数学・測量関係の叢書(そうしょ)である。『崇禎暦書(すうていれきしょ)』編纂(へんさん)にも加わったが完成前に没した。

［宮島一彦］

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