Companions in Geography: East-West Collaboration in the Mapping of Qing China (C. 1685-1735)

by Mario Cams

In Companions in Geography Mario Cams revisits the early 18th century mapping of Qing China, without doubt one of the largest cartographic endeavours of the early modern world. Commonly seen as a Jesuit initiative, the project appears here as the result of a convergence of interests among the French Academy of Sciences, the Jesuit order, and the Kangxi emperor (r. 1661-1722). These connections inspired the gradual integration of European and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004345353
• ISBN13: 9789004345355
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"