"In a 1581 letter, Ricci explicitly acknowledged that he was trying to understand local methods of timekeeping from an intelligent Brahmin or an honest Moor."
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Matteo Ricci
Matteo Ricci(6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions.
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