[PDF.65uf] China at the Center: Ricci and Verbiest World Maps

China at the Center: Ricci and Verbiest World Maps

[PDF.zj19] China at the Center: Ricci and Verbiest World Maps

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 | #1586096 in Books |  Asian Art Museum of San |  2016-03-01 |  2016-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x.20 x8.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 64 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A very interesting and readable book that gives one an ...|By Customer|A very interesting and readable book that gives one an appreciation for the Jesuit influence in China during the late 1500s to the late 1600s.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Jim Siebold|Well done graphics and informative te| |"The catalog…does a great job of placing the maps into their cultural context." —The Wall Street Journal

"The essays are useful and enlightening, and [the book is] full of lovely illustrations, including close-up details o

China at the Center focuses on two masterpieces of seventeenth-century map-making that illustrate the exchange of information (and misinformation) between Europe and Asia. The world maps created by Jesuit priests Matteo Ricci (1602) and Ferdinand Verbiest (1674) for the Chinese courts tell fascinating stories about the meeting of two worldviews.

They provided Europeans with greater knowledge of China and the Chinese with new ideas about geography, astronom...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.China at the Center: Ricci and Verbiest World Maps   |  M. Antoni J. Ucerler, Theodore N. Foss, Mark Stephen Mir. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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