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Peking used by the Mandarins as an ob-
servatory, the six instruments handsomely
designed by Father Verbiest, copied from
the instruments of Tycho Brahe, and embel-
lished with Chinese dragons and emblems
cast on the supports. He also saw there two
old instruments (which he was told were
Arabic) of date 1279, by Ko Show-King,
astronomer to Koblai Khan, the grandson
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