China at the Center

China at the Center
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Publisher : Asian Art Museum
Total Pages : 64
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ISBN-10 : 093911772X
ISBN-13 : 9780939117727
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Book Synopsis China at the Center by : M. Antoni J. Ucerler

Download or read book China at the Center written by M. Antoni J. Ucerler and published by Asian Art Museum. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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