Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9004682665
• ISBN-13: 978-9004684782
• Thông tin xuất bản: Brill, 2024
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 461644
• Chủ đề: 1. cartography; 2. China; 3. Christianity in China; 4. Church of the East; 5. early modern

Tóm tắt

 How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? This series of essays organized into sections on Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication
  Jesuit World Maps in Chinese
  Reverberations of Matteo Ricci's Maps in East Asia
  and Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world.