Thursday, July 14, 2022

S. Nagakubo created this wood-block print of the world around 1785—based on the 1602 ed. of Ricci’s Great Universal Geographic Map in Chinese. Though less accurate than hemisphere maps, these remained popular in Japan in the 18th c. https://t.co/NxtxkeyJ4O …


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