Matteo Ricci's map and the centre around China

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20 novembre 2013

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Jack Keilo ( Jacques Keilo ), « Matteo Ricci's map and the centre around China », Centrici, ID : 10670/1.5mecs9


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Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) was a Jesuit, an omniscient one: author, translator, theologian and mathematician. He was the first Westerner to translate Confucius into a European language and, most likely, the first Westerner to be admitted into the Forbidden City. His conversation and intellectual dialogues with Chinese intelligentsia are documented and well known. An unattributed version of the 1602 Kunyu Wanguo Quantu of Matteo Ricci Ricci was also a great cartographer whose work is still infl...

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