Jesuit mapmaking in China : d'Anville's "Nouvelle atlas de la Chine" (1737) / edited by Roberto M. Ribeiro with John W. O'Malley, S.J.
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 t...
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| Other Authors: |
Ribeiro, Roberto M.
(Editor),
O'Malley, John W.
(Editor),
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782
(Cartographer),
Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743 |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Philadelphia :
Saint Joseph's University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series ;
v. 11.
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| Holy Cross Note: | Jesuit author. |
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