Chronology Entry
Year
1659
Text
Bodleian Library : http://treasures.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/The-Selden-Map.
John Selden's Map of China was left to the Bodleian Library in 1659.
Dating from the late Ming period, it shows China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Southeast Asia and part of India. The map shows shipping routes with compass bearings from the port of Quanzhou across the entire region. A panel of text on the left of the map near Calicut, its western extremity, gives directions of the routes to Aden, Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz. This is the earliest Chinese map not only to show shipping routes, but also to depict China as part of a greater East and Southeast Asia, and not the centre of the known world.
John Selden's Map of China was left to the Bodleian Library in 1659.
Dating from the late Ming period, it shows China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Southeast Asia and part of India. The map shows shipping routes with compass bearings from the port of Quanzhou across the entire region. A panel of text on the left of the map near Calicut, its western extremity, gives directions of the routes to Aden, Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz. This is the earliest Chinese map not only to show shipping routes, but also to depict China as part of a greater East and Southeast Asia, and not the centre of the known world.
Mentioned People (1)
Selden, John
(Salvington, Sussex 1584-1654 London) : Jurist
Subjects
Geography and Geology