Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1 May 1591 – 15 August 1666) was a German Jesuit and astronomer.
He spent most of his life as a missionary in China (where he is remembered as "Tang Ruowang") and became an adviser to the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty.
Author: Unknown Source: "P. Adam Schall Germanus I. Ordinis Mandarinus" ("Father Adam Schall, the German mandarin of the first order"), 1667, from Athanasius Kircher, Tooneel van China..., trans. Jan Hendrick Glazemaker (Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1668), plate Bb, after page 138. Scanned from Marcia Reed, "A Perfume is Best from Afar: Publishing China for Europe," in China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century, ed. by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007), p. 15. License: CC-PD-Mark PD-Art (PD-old-100)