Subject: Verbiest, Ferdinand 南懷仁, 1623-1688--Contributions in cartography

China at the center : Ricci and Verbiest world maps
AuthorRicci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History 利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所Foss, Theodore N., 1950-Asian Art Museum of San FranciscoReichle, Natasha, 1965-Mir, Mark Stephen, 1952-University of San Francisco. Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural HistoryUcerler, M. Antoni J. [Üçerler, Murat Antoni John 余安道 • ウセレル・アントニ]
PlaceSan Francisco
PublisherAsian Art Museum of San Francisco
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook (Exhibition catalog), Digital Book (PDF)
Series
ShelfHallway Cases, Digital Archives
Call NumberGA1121.C458 2016
Descriptionxiii, 48 p. : col. ill., maps (some folding) ; 25 cm.
Note

China at the center : Ricci and Verbiest world maps / Natasha Reichle, editor ; with essays by M. Antoni J. Ucerler, Theodore N. Foss, and Mark Stephen Mir.
Accompanies the "China at the Center" exhibition at the AAM and associated exhibit and symposium organized by the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco.
Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Jay Xu -- Preface. Mapping the marvelous / Natasha Reichle -- Missionaries, mandarins, and maps: reimagining the known world / M. Antoni J. Ucerler, SJ -- Ricci’s world map: the 1602 Kunyu wanguo quantu / Theodore N. Foss -- All under heaven: visions of far lands in the Verbiest world map of 1674 / Mark Stephen Mir.

"Global exploration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to new interactions between Europe and Asia. Jesuit priests were instrumental in spreading knowledge of the world to China and information about China to Europe. China at the Center focuses on two masterpieces of seventeenth-century map-making that illustrate this exchange of information (and misinformation). The first map is the Kunyu wanguo quantu, or Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth, also known as the 1602 Ricci map, after Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit priest who helped create it. The second is the 1674 Verbiest world map, which was also made by a Jesuit priest, Ferdinand Verbiest, for the Chinese court. These two maps are among the earliest, rarest, and largest woodblock-printed maps to survive from the period. They will be examined through the lens of the development of cartography in China and through the biographies of the fascinating men who were instrumental in their production. Maps are political objects, and the inclusion of elaborate and extensive notations on both these maps illustrate the fascinating relationships between the Jesuits and the Chinese courts. These maps represent the meeting of two worldviews, and the information they contain provided Europeans with greater knowledge of China and the Chinese with new ideas about geography, astronomy, and the natural sciences. This book accompanies the exhibition China at the Center, at the Asian Art Museum March 4-May 8, 2016, which brings together the 1602 Ricci map from the James Ford Bell Trust in Minneapolis and the 1674 Verbiest map from the Library of Congress in Washington D.C"-- Provided by publisher.
Local access dig.pdf. [China at the Center catalog.pdf]

ISBN9780939117727 ; 093911772X
LCCN2015037174
Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖. [Ferdinand Verbiest : World Map, Peking, 1674]
AuthorRicci, Matteo 利瑪竇, 1552-1610Verbiest, Ferdinand 南懷仁, 1623-1688Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
PlaceTaibei Shi 臺北市
PublisherSait Cartographic Institute
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese-English
TypeMap
Series
ShelfMap Case
Call Number2A
Description1 map on 2 sheets ; sheets 108 x 77 cm
NoteReproduction is made by Sait Cartographic Institute.
A reproduction of an 1860 (Xianfeng gengshen 咸豐庚申) reprint of Verbiest's 1674 map of the eastern and western hemispheres. Includes illustration captions, text in Chinese, and historical note in English.
Scale 1:28,000,000. (reduced: original 1:13,000,000)

LC & Harvard-Yenching records note: Wood block prints. Shows the world in two hemispheres. Relief shown pictorially. Based on the world map of Joannes Blaeu (and Matteo Ricci). Translated title: Double Hemisphere Map of the World. See: OCLC#5681168