Kunyu Wanguo Quantu

Kunyu Wanguo Quantu , Japanese version from the Kano collection of the Tōhoku University Library

Kunyu Wanguo Quantu ( Chinese 坤輿萬國全圖 , Pinyin Kūnyú Wànguó Quántú - "total map of the countless countries in the world"; Italian : Carta Geografica Completa di tutti i Regni del Mondo ) is the earliest known Chinese world map in the style of European maps. It wasprintedfor the first time in China in 1602 by Matteo Ricci and his Chinese colleagues, the mandarin Zhang Wentao (張文濤) and the translator Li Zhizao (李之藻), on behalf of the Emperor Wanli .

The map was essential to the growing Chinese understanding of the world. It was later exported to Japan and was influential there too.

literature

Benjamin A. Elman: On their own terms: science in China, 1550-1900 . Harvard University Press 2005, ISBN 978-0-674-01685-9 , p. 127ff ( restricted online version in Google Book Search - USA )

Individual evidence

^ Madeleine Baran: Historic map coming to Minnesota , Minnesota Public Radio. December 16, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
↑ Japan and China: mutual representations in the modern era Wataru Masuda p.17 [1]

[1] Madeleine Baran: Historic map coming to Minnesota , Minnesota Public Radio. December 16, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2010.

[2] Japan and China: mutual representations in the modern era Wataru Masuda p.17 [1]