Название: Jesuit Mapmaking in China: D'anville's Nouvelle Atlas De La Chine (1737)
Автор: Roberto M. Ribeiro, John W. O'Malley
Издательство: Saint Joseph's University Press
ISBN: 0916101819
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 172
Размер: 71,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the early 1700s, Jesuit missionaries in China persuaded Emperor Kangxi to employ them to map his vast empire. Thus was launched the most extensive, scientifically based cartographic undertaking in the history of the world up to that time. Jesuit Mapmaking in China tells the fascinating story of that undertaking and the story of the subsequent struggle to have the maps published.