Xióng Míngyù 熊明遇 (zì Liángrú 良孺; 1579–1649; native of Jìnxián 進賢 in Jiāngxī) was a late-Míng / Southern-Míng official and one of the most consequential figures in the Chinese reception of Western (Jesuit) natural philosophy in the second quarter of the 17th century. Jìnshì of 1601 (Wànlì 29). He rose through the censorate and provincial offices to Bīngbù shàngshū 兵部尚書 (Minister of War) under the Chóngzhēn emperor; suffered repeated political defeats due to his association with the Dōnglín 東林 faction. He befriended several Jesuit missionaries — most importantly Niccolò Longobardo 龍華民 and Sambiasi 畢方濟 — and learned from them the rudiments of Aristotelian-Ptolemaic natural philosophy, which he absorbed into a synthetic géwù 格物 framework deployed in his major scientific monograph the Gézhì cǎo 格致草 (KR3fa019, composed late 1630s, printed 1644). The work is the first sustained Chinese attempt to integrate the Western Aristotelian four-element cosmology and tellurian geography with classical Chinese yīnyáng / wǔxíng doctrine. CBDB id 64213. He is also the author of the Lǜ-li héngcōng 律曆衡從 (Standards-Cōng of the Pitches and the Calendar) and the Wénzhí táng jí 文直堂集 (collected literary works).