''Wanguo Quantu'' or the ''Complete Map of the Myriad Countries'' is a map developed in the 1620s by the

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Giulio Aleni Giulio Aleni ( la, Julius Alenius; 1582– 10 June 1649), in Chinese , was an Italian Jesuit missionary and scholar. He was born in Leno near Brescia in Italy, at the time part of the Republic of Venice, and died at Yanping in China. He bec ...

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following the earlier work of

Matteo Ricci Matteo Ricci, SJ (; la, Mattheus Riccius; 6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610), was an Italians, Italian Society of Jesus, Jesuit Priesthood in the Catholic Church, priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He create ...

, who was the first Jesuit to speak

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and to publish maps of the world in Chinese from 1574 to 1603. Aleni modified Ricci's maps to accommodate Chinese demands for a

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projection, placing the "Middle Kingdom" at the center of the visual field. __NOTOC__

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* ''The Sino-European Map (“Shanhai yudi quantu”) in the Encyclopedia Sancai tuhui'' Roderich Pta

* Wigal, Donald (2000) ''Historic Maritime Maps'', Parkstone Press, New York,

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Vatican exhibit
{{Chinese maps Historic maps of the world 1620s in China 17th-century maps and globes

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