Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture
Copy of Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖 (Complete map of the world), 1674, Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. held at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Image stitched together from individual images of each frame of the map screen. Guest Speaker: S.E. Kile (University of Michigan) "Was the World Early Modern?: Telescopes, Surgery, and Print Media in China, ca. 1658" In the middle of the seventeenth century, the transition from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing quickly made news around the globe, and its drama played out on stages from Japan to the Netherlands. Just a few decades earlier, Matteo Ricci had produced...