From Historical Cartography to Mapping the World in the 21st Century

From Historical Cartography to Mapping the World in the 21st Century

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Join Dr. Laura Hostetler, visiting scholar at the Ricci Institute, as she delves into the history and cultural significance of a map produced in China by Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), while Dr. Ralph Ehrenberg from the Library of Congress will speak about a map by the Flemish priest Ferdi…

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    • May 4, 2016 LATEST EPISODE
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    This special program was part of the international symposium "Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: From the World Maps of Ricci and Verbiest to Google Earth" organized by the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco from April 22 to 24, 2016 in conjunction with the exhibition "China at the Center: Rare Ricci and Verbiest World Maps" at the Asian Art Museum. This symposium was supported by the EDS-Stewart Endowment for Chinese-Western Cultural History and the Asian Scholars' Endowment at the USF Ricci Institute.

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