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90:' administrative offices. The accessibility to essential material, as well as Kircher's vast interest in Chinese language and culture, gave the impulse to present the unknown East in one comprehensive volume of 237 pages. The scholar was therefore considered an expert on China, although he had never visited the country.
253:. First, he wanted to promote the missionaries' work and tell about the great journeys of Europeans in China. Second, he was also driven by his strong personal interest in Chinese language and culture. He collected Chinese objects for display in his museum, a chamber of curiosity in Rome established in 1651 and named
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Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, Delivered by their Excell'cies Peter de Goyer, and Jacob de Keyzer, at His Imperial City of Peking, wherein the Cities, Towns, Villages, Ports, Rivers, &c. in Their Passages from Canton to
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Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China, Deliver'd by their Excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at His Imperial City of Peking, wherein the Cities, Towns, Villages, Ports, Rivers, &c. in Their Passages from Canton to
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was quickly translated into Dutch (1668), English (1669 & 1673), and French (1670) shortly after the Latin original had been published in 1667. The Dutch and French translations were both published in
Amsterdam by Janssonius van Waesberge but, upon the death of Weyerstraten, cocredited first to
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China..., Illustrated by
Numerous Monuments Both Sacred and Profane, and by a Quantity of Research on Nature and Art, to Which Has Been Newly Added the Interesting Questions that the Most Serene Grand Duke of Tuscany Has Recently Posed Fr. Johann Grueber Concerning This Great Empire Along with a
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Apart from describing and illustrating foreign objects and exotic creatures, the book also dwells on relations between China and the West. Kircher connects
Western, Indian, Chinese and Japanese Idolatry and tries to prove the evidence of early Christianity in China. His work emphasises Christian
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La Chine..., Illustrée de
Plusieurs Monuments Tant Sacrés que Profanes, et de Quantité de Recherchés de la Nature & de l'Art à Quoy On à Adjousté de Nouveau les Questions Curieuses que le Serenissime Grand Duc de Toscane a Fait dépuis Peu au P. Jean Grubere Touchant Ce Grand Empire avec un
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Kircher's work is an encyclopedia about the
Chinese empire containing accurate cartography and illustrations that elucidate the vivid descriptions found in the text. The volume is a cultural account of China ranging from religious practices and social customs over languages to China's natural
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contains a number of realistic depictions of
Chinese plants and animals, but also fictitious images, such as the "Dragon and Tiger Mountain". Although Kircher himself did not create most of the images, he chose them wisely in order to elucidate the descriptions found in the text.
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The most important and interesting features of
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Kircher himself had never been to China, but compiled the oral and written reports of former Jesuit missionaries to publish a summary of the knowledge on China and Tibet collected by Europeans in the 17th century. The work was published in
141:'s rebuttal to some of its claims and aims. The work, however, awakened great interest in China and inspired numerous further English publications on far Eastern travels and discoveries. The French edition included a discussion between
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was a polymath who published around 40 major works in the field of both the humanities and the sciences. He was based at the Jesuits' College in Rome, where he had access to many reports that Chinese-based missionaries sent back to the
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Kircher's attempt to explain the origins of Chinese characters, supposedly showing those formed by plant roots (the 5th type), small birds' wings (6th), turtles (7th), birds and peacocks (8th), and herbs, wings, and branches
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271:. Kircher bases this assumption on the Sino-Syrian monument that was found there in the 8th century. In his interpretation the inscription on the monument is a proof of the first declaration of the Gospel in China.
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Peking, Are Ingeniously Described... Also an Epistle of Father John Adams Their Antagonist, Concerning the Whole Negotiation, with an Appendix of Several Remarks Taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher
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Peking, Are Ingeniously Described... Also an Epistle of Father John Adams Their Antagonist, Concerning the Whole Negotiation, with an Appendix of Several Remarks Taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher
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Toonneel van China, door Veel, Zo Geestelijke als Werreltlijke, Geheugteekenen, Verscheide Vertoningen van de Natuur en Kunst, en Blijken van Veel Andere Gedenkwaerdige Dingen, Geopent en Verheerlykt
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under his own imprint and the second was printed by him for Kircher's regular publisher, a house run by Jan Janssonius van Waesberge and Elizer Weyerstraten.
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China Illustrated in Monuments, Some Sacred, Some Profane, and Also in Various Spectacles of Nature and Art, and in Discussions of Other Memorable Things
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wonders, such as exotic plants and animals. By collecting and compiling information taken from fellow Jesuits including
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China on Paper. European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
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