Mots-clés
Carte ancienne ; Chine ; Histoire de la cartographie ; Missionnaire jésuite ; Monde ; Représentation de l'espace ; Siècle 17 ; ToponymieChina ; History of cartography ; Old map ; Place names ; Seventeenth Century ; Spatial representation ; WorldHistoria de la cartografía ; Mapa antiguo ; Representación del espacio ; Siglo 17 ; ToponimiaFrancesco Sambiasi, a missing link in European map making in China ?
Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)
HEIRMAN, A.
Université de Gent, Gent, Belgique
DE TROIA, P.
Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italie
PARMENTIER, J.
Université de Gent, Gent, Belgique
Description :
When the Jesuit missionaries began to work in China, they attracted the attention of the Chinese by introducing European knowledge. This is the context in which Jesuits such as Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni, Francesco Sambiasi and Ferdinand Verbiest made their Chinese-language world maps. Sambiasi was a man of many talents. He was a tactful diplomat and a learned scientist. His world map shows him to be a skilful adapter of earlier knowledge, which he passed on to future generations. The six known copies of his map are in two versions, printed from two sets of wood blocks (c. 1639). A text at the top of one version explains why the world must be seen as a sphere, which demonstrates how these maps were meant to convince the Chinese public of European scientific findings.
Type de document :
Article de périodique
Source :
Imago mundi (Online), issn : 1479-7801, 2009, vol. 61, n°. 1, p. 1-21, nombre de pages : 21, Références bibliographiques : 63 ref.
Date :
2009
Identifiants :
eurl : http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a907362364andfulltext=713240928
Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, Abingdon, Routledge
Langue :
Anglais
Anglais
Droits :
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