Re: !418 Chinese map of the world?

There's an awful lot of detail here including Antarctica and the North
Pole.

Remember that it took the Europeans a few hundred years even after
Magellan's voyage to get something this accurate.

Compare, for example, the 1626 map of John Speed:

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ren/Ren1/464.html

It does look authentically old and may in fact date from 1763, the
problem is whether it indeed is a copy of an earlier Ming map.

Regards,
Paul Kekai Manansala
http://sambali.blogspot.com/

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