Francesco Sambiasi, a Missing Link in European Map Making in China?

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...

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Publicado en:Imago Mundi Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 29 - 47
Autores principales: Heirman, Ann, De Troia, Paolo, Parmentier, Jan
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2009
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