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    Who was the first Westerner to write a book about Feng Shui?

    Question #130065. Asked by drsteevo. (Mar 19 13 1:00 PM)


    blantonrk

    		The Italian Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), may have been the first Westerner to describe Feng Shui in his "De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu". He derided the practice as "absurd superstition", comparing it to astrology.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Ricci#Ricci_in_China
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Christiana_expeditione_apud_Sinas#Occult_practices

    Mar 19 13, 1:49 PM

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