The ''Kunyu Quantu'' (), or ''Full Map of the World'', was a map of the world developed by
Jesuit
The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...
father
Ferdinand Verbiest
Ferdinand Verbiest, (9 October 1623 – 28 January 1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tielt in the County of Flanders (now part of Belgium). He is known as Nan Huairen () in Chine ...
during
his mission in China in 1674.
A copy is in the
Hunterian Museum
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.
The map follows the earlier works of
Matteo Ricci
Matteo Ricci (; ; 6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the , a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters. In 2022, the Apostolic See decl ...
, such as the ''
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed in Ming China at the request of the Wanli Emperor in 1602 by the Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest kn ...
''.
See also
* ''
Wanguo Quantu
''Wanguo Quantu'' or the ''Complete Map of the Myriad Countries'' is a map developed in the 1620s by the Jesuit Giulio Aleni in Ming China following the earlier work of Matteo Ricci, who was the first Jesuit to speak Chinese and to publish maps ...
''
Notes
External links
The Super Map. ''NPM's Anime Carnival'' (exhibit). Taipei: National Palace Museum.
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1674 works
17th century in China
Historic maps of the world
17th-century maps and globes