书名：China at the Center: Ricci and Verbiest World Maps / 以中国为中心：利玛窦和南怀仁古地图珍本展
定价：150.0
ISBN：9780939117727
作者：M. Antoni J. Ucerler
版次：1
出版时间：2016-01

内容提要：

题 目：China at the Center: Ricci and Verbiest World Maps / 以中国为中心：利玛窦和南怀仁古地图珍本展

作 者：M. Antoni J. Ucerler

出 版：Asian Art Museum，2016

装 帧：平装，64页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：20.3*25.4 cm

 

 

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, astronomy, and the natural sciences. The maps also show the ways that certain myths were perpetuated, especially as seen in the vivid and imaginative descriptions of the peoples and places of the world and in their depictions of exotic fauna.