• Sancai tuhui: About 1620 Giulio Aleni made the world map Wanguo Quantu (萬國, lit. "Complete map of all the countries"), putting China at the center of...
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    1602: Matteo Ricci produces the Map of the Myriad Countries of the World (坤輿萬國, Kūnyú Wànguó Quántú), a world map that will be used throughout East Asia...
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    works: the Guangyutu (廣與) (1555) by Luo Hongxian (羅洪先) contains a pair of maps named Dongnan Haiyi Tu (東南海夷) and Xinan Haiyi Tu (西南海夷) that are considered...
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  • accordingly illustrated separately from the clover. Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (Chinese: 坤輿萬國; lit. 'A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World'; Italian: Carta Geografica...
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    European-style world map in Chinese, called "Da Ying Quan Tu" (Chinese: 大瀛; lit. 'Complete Map of the Great World'). No prints of the 1584 map are known...
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    Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in China (1602) named Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (坤輿萬國). No Japanese record published up to the late-18th century indicated any...
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