Asia-Pacific in the Making of the Americas: Toward a Global History

Shi Lu chapter 4 drawings



In chapter 4, "On the Nature of the Earth," Cobo uses drawings annotated in Chinese to introduce the Chinese to the state-of-the-art in the late 16th-century European cosmological knowledge.

The text offers the first clear expression of the roundness of the earth ever written in the Chinese language, and it offers several arguments to prove it.







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