Edward Bernard’s Chinese map

This article assembles scattered pieces of evidence to demonstrate that the famous Chinese “Selden map”, acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1659, was duplicated in the later seventeenth century by the Oxford mathematician and orientalist Edward Bernard (1673–91), as part of his abortive attempt to...

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Main Author: Poole, W
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Taylor and Francis 2019