Which Happened First?

Gu Yanwu

Gu Yanwu
Image: 葉衍蘭輯,黃小泉摹繪, · Public domain · source

Gu Yanwu was a Chinese historian, philologist, and poet. After failing to pass the civil service examination and after surviving the upheaval of the Qing conquest of the Ming dynasty, he became an itinerant scholar, traveling across much of imperial China while collecting notes for his work.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Johannes HeveliusJanuary 28, 1611 – January 28, 1687
  2. John PellMarch 1, 1611 – December 12, 1685
  3. Antoine ArnauldFebruary 6, 1612 – August 8, 1694
  4. Gu Yanwu (this page)July 15, 1613 – February 15, 1682
  5. Franciscus SylviusMarch 15, 1614 – November 16, 1672
  6. John WallisNovember 23, 1616 – October 28, 1703

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