Shanhai Yudi Quantu
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The Shanhai Yudi Quantu is a Ming dynasty Chinese map published in 1609 in the leishu encyclopedia Sancai Tuhui.
Detail of East Asia
Detail of Southern Asia
Depiction of Europe in the Shanhai Yudi Quantu
Leishu
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The leishu is a genre of reference books historically compiled in China and other East Asian countries. The term is generally translated as "encyclopedia", although the leishu are quite different from
Shanhai Yudi Quantu
…山海舆地全图; traditional Chinese: 山海輿地全圖; pinyin: Shānhǎi Yúdì Quántú, "Complete Terrestrial Map") is a Ming dynasty Chinese map published in 1609 in the leishu encyclopedia Sancai Tuhui. The Shanhai Yudi Quantu is known to have been highly influenced by the Jesuit missions in China, starting with the work of…
The Yongle Dadian, the largest leishu ever compiled