Individual itineraries and the circulation of scientific and technical knowledge in East Asia (16th–20th centuries)

Birth

Arrived in China (Guangdong)

Composition of map of the world

Revision of map of the world

Publication of map of the world (Kunyu wanguo quantu 坤輿萬國全圖)

Collaboration on translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometry and Ci liang fa yi 測量法義 (Methods of Measurement Explained)

Membership of team to write and translate of Ce liang fa yi 測量法義

Composition by Matteo Ricci with preface by Li Zhizao 李之藻

Composition of Yuan rong jiao yi 圜容較義 by Matteo Ricci, which Li Zhizao 李之藻 put into acceptable Chinese

Mention of Li Madou (Matteo Ricci) in the biography of Zhou Ziyu 周子愚 in Chou ren zhuan

Death

Membership of team to translate Euclid's Elements of Geometry, published in 1611

Mention of Matteo Ricci's coming to China (in the Wanli period) in the Preface to Xiao an xin fa 曉庵新法 by Wang Xichan 王錫闡

Inclusion of Li Madou 利瑪竇 in Ruan Yuan's 阮元 list of Western astronomers contemporary with Zhou Ziyu 周子愚