Kunyu Wanguo Quantu
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title:
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu
text:
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed in Ming China at the request of the Wanli Emperor in 1602 by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. It has been referred to as the Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography, "because of its rarity, importance and exoticism". The map was crucial in expanding Chinese knowledge of the world. It was event
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Earliest known European-style Chinese world map
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunyu_Wanguo_Quantu
date created:
2009-12-21T07:53:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T05:06:41Z
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