When Chinese geomantic learn to Europe?

About in the 16th century, the western missionaries began to constantly transmit the Chinese culture to the west.Italian missionary matteo ricci had written a book "matteo ricci Chinese reading notes", including a description of the feng shui: "the Chinese believe that the material world is made of gold, wood, water, fire and earth made up of five elements."

In the 19th century British missionary kuyt came to China.After many years the study of Chinese culture, he wrote "the feng shui, the ancient Chinese sacred landscape science, and published in London.

Foreigners study feng shui is the most famous, when British history expert Joseph Needham, he has a profound understanding of Chinese feng shui, and in the book "China's science and civilization", and think highly of Chinese traditional feng shui architecture.