Speaker：Professor Joseph W. Dauben (City University of New York)

Topic：Science and Art in China. Li Matou (Matteo Ricci), Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione), and the Influence of Western Geometry and Mathematical Perspective on Early Qing Dynasty Mathematicians and Artists

Time：14：00 ，Thursday，June 25，2026

Venue：Room 210, Institute for the History of Natural Science

Moderator: Researcher Guo Jinhai (Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Introduction to the Speaker and Lecture Topic：

Joseph W. Dauben，Distinguished Professor of Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Joseph W. Dauben is a member effectif of the International Academy of History of Science and a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He has been editor of Historia Mathematica, an international journal for the history of mathematics, and chairman of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics. A graduate of Claremont McKenna College (A.B. '66) and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D. '72), Professor Dauben has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and Clare Hall (Cambridge), and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Senior ACLS Fellowship.