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1602 Works: 1602 Architecture, 1602 Books, 1602 Operas, 1602 Paintings, 1602 Plays, the City of the Sun, Kunyu Wanguo Quantu

1602 Works: 1602 Architecture, 1602 Books, 1602 Operas, 1602 Paintings, 1602 Plays, the City of the Sun, Kunyu Wanguo Quantu


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Chapters: 1602 Architecture, 1602 Books, 1602 Operas, 1602 Paintings, 1602 Plays, the City of the Sun, Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, Troilus and Cressida, Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, a Larum for London, the Taking of Christ, Greyfriars Kirk, Ruins of St. Paul's, Saint Matthew and the Angel, Si-O-Se Pol, the Inspiration of Saint Matthew, Buland Darwaza, Thomas Lord Cromwell, 1602 in Literature, Euridice, Vleeshal, Delightes for Ladies, Omer Pasha Mosque. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (Chinese: pinyin: Knyu Wanguo Quantu; literally "A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World"; Italian: , "Complete Geographical Map of all the Kingdoms of the World"), printed in China at the request of the Wanli Emperor during 1602 by Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, Mandarin Zhong Wentao and the technical translator, Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map in the style of European maps. It has been referred to as the Impossible Black Tulip of Cartography, "because of its rarity, importance and exoticism." Unattributed, very detailed, two page colored edition (1604?), copy of the 1602 mapThe map was crucial in expanding Chinese knowledge of the world. It was later exported to Japan and was influential there as well. Pseudocylindrical Eckert IV map projection, 1906, resembling the 1602 Ricci mapThe 1602 Ricci map is a very large, 5 ft (1.52 m) high and 12 ft (3.66 m) wide, xylograph of a pseudocylindrical map projection showing China at the center of the known world. The 1906 Eckert IV map resembles the display of this Chinese map. It is the first map in Chinese to show the Americas. The map's mirror image originally was carved on six large blocks of wood and then printed in browni...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=25783080


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781157727200
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 118 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157727204
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: 1602 Architecture, 1602 Books, 1602 Operas, 1602 Paintings, 1602 Plays, the City of the Sun, Kunyu Wanguo Quantu
  • Width: 229 mm


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