Re: !418 Chinese map of the world?
- From: "George" <gblack@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: 13 Jan 2006 11:10:51 -0800
Tom McDonald wrote:
> Doug Weller wrote:
> > http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5381851
> >
> > China beat Columbus to it, perhaps
> > Jan 12th 2006
> > From The Economist print edition
> >
> >
> > "The map (shown above) will be unveiled in Beijing on January 16th and at
> > the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich a day later. Six Chinese
> > characters in the upper right-hand corner of the map say this is a
> > "general chart of the integrated world". In the lower left-hand corner is
> > a note that says the chart was drawn by Mo Yi Tong, imitating a world
> > chart made in 1418 which showed the barbarians paying tribute to the Ming
> > emperor, Zhu Di. "
> >
> > Note this dates from 1763.
>
> I think it is better to say that it is said to be a 1763 copy of
> a 1418 map that does not seem to have a pedigree dating before 2001.
>
> I hope they test the map for anatase. :-)
Yeah.
I'd question the following statement
"(though cartographers no longer doubt that Australia and New Zealand
were discovered by Chinese seamen centuries before Captain Cook arrived
on the scene)...."
Has Menzies upskilled ?
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