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Lecture - Circling the Square: How Geometrical and Administrative Mapping Intersected in Seventeenth-Century Eurasia
Stanford ,
USAOrganisation: David Rumsey Map CenterIn the historiography of East Asian cartography, maps produced by Jesuit missionaries to China have played a prominent role. It is often assumed that Jesuits successfully transmitted ‘scientific cartography’ from Europe to China, so that the question of the impact of their maps on cartography in East Asia has stood central in the literature. This talk problematizes this approach by reconstructing the intellectual, social, and material landscapes that informed the meeting of two vastly different modes of mapping.
The lecture will be given by distinguished map scholar Mario Cams, an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at KU Leuven in Belgium, and the Kratter Visiting Professor in the Stanford History Department.URL: https://events.stanford.edu/event/circling-the-square-how-ge[...]
