File:China Monumentis, qua sacris qua profanis by Athanasius Kircher.jpg
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English: Frontispiece for Athanasius Kircher's 1667 China Illustrated, published at Amsterdam by Elisée or Elizaeus Weyerstraet and Jan Janszoon van Waesberghe, depicting Adam Schall, an angel, and Matteo Ricci displaying a map of China below SS Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola venerating an IHS representing Jesus Christ surrounded by angels. Note the mandarin square on Schall's robe.
Latina: Athanasii Kircheri China Monumentis: qua Sacris quà Profanis, nec non Variis Naturae & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque Rerum Memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata... Amstelodami apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1667. |
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Source | The frontispiece of Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata. This scan is from http://www.deutsches-museum.de/bib/entdeckt/alt_buch/buch0900.htm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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