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Matteo Ricci
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ISBN: 9781442205864 9781442205888 1442205881 1283051559 9781283051552 1442205865 9786613051554 6613051551 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield


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Imagined civilizations : China, the West, and their first encounter
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ISBN: 9781421406060 1421406063 1421407124 9781421407128 Year: 2013 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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"Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits portrayed themselves as wise men from the West who used mathematics and science in service of their mission. Chinese literati-official Xu Guangqi (1562-1633), who collaborated with the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) to translate Euclid's Elements into Chinese, reportedly recognized the superiority of Western mathematics and science and converted to Christianity. Most narratives relegate Xu and the Chinese to subsidiary roles as the Jesuits' translators, followers, and converts. Imagined Civilizations tells the story from the Chinese point of view. Using Chinese primary sources, Roger Hart focuses in particular on Xu, who was in a position of considerable power over Ricci. The result is a perspective startlingly different from that found in previous studies. Hart analyzes Chinese mathematical treatises of the period, revealing that Xu and his collaborators could not have believed their declaration of the superiority of Western mathematics. Imagined Civilizations explains how Xu's West served as a crucial resource. While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor."--Publisher's website.


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Map : exploring the world
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ISBN: 9780714869445 0714869449 Year: 2015 Publisher: London : Phaidon press limited,

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More than 300 maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics, map dealers and collectors, the maps represent over 5,000 years of cartographic innovation drawing on a range of cultures and traditions. Comprehensive in scope, this book features all types of maps from navigation and surveys to astronomical maps, satellite and digital maps, as well as works of art inspired by cartography. Unique curated sequence presents maps in thought-provoking juxtapositions for lively, stimulating reading. Features some of the most influential mapmakers and institutions in history, including Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Phyllis Pearson, Heinrich Berann, Bill Rankin, Ordnance Survey and Google Earth. Easy-to-use format, with large reproductions, authoritative texts and key caption information, it is the perfect introduction to the subject. Also features a comprehensive illustrated timeline of the history of cartography, biographies of leading cartographers and a glossary of cartographic terms.

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grafisch ontwerp --- grafisch design --- grafische vormgeving --- 766.022 --- Ai Weiwei --- al-Idrisi Mohammed --- de' Barbari Jacopo --- Beck Harry --- Zheng He --- Waldseemüller Martin --- Wainwright Alfred --- da Vinci Leonardo --- Vignelli Massimo --- Stevenson Robert Louis --- Steinberg Saul --- Smith William --- Shepard E.H. --- Shackleton Ernest --- Saxton Christopher --- Van Sant Tom --- Ricci Matteo --- Remezov Semyon --- Reis Piri --- Reinel Jorge --- Rankin Bill --- Raisz Erwin --- Ptolemy Claudius --- Peters Arno --- Perry Grayson --- Pearsall Phyllis --- Patterson Tom --- Paris Matthew --- Ortelius Abraham --- Ordnance Survey --- Moll Herman --- Minard Charles Joseph --- Mercator Gerard --- Maury Matthew Fontaine --- MapMyRun --- Macrobius --- Livingstone David --- Lin Maya --- Kircher Athanasius --- Kerouac Jack --- Johns Jasper --- Imhof Eduard --- von Humboldt Alexander --- Heezen & Tharp --- Hatoum Mona --- Harrison Richard --- Halley Edmond --- Google Earth --- Gill MacDonald --- Fuller R. Buckminster --- Frémont John Charles --- Franklin & Folger --- kunst --- Fisk Harold --- Fine Oronce --- Farrer John --- Eliassopn Olafur --- Dürer Albrecht --- Dupin Charles --- Denes Agnes --- Cresques Abraham --- de la Cosa Juan --- Cooper Becky --- Cook James --- Columbus Christophorus --- de Champlain Samuel --- Cassini César-François --- Bünting Heinrich --- Bunge Bill --- Braun & Hogenberg --- Booth Charles --- Bollmann Hermann --- Boetti Alighiero --- Berann Heinrich C. --- Shepard E.H --- Berann Heinrich C --- Atlases --- Cartography --- History.

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