Modus Scribendi.

1667

University of Otago Library Special Collections (DeBeer) - Lc 1667 K

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Amstelodami, apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet.

"The Society of Jesus was founded in 1539 by St Ignatius of Loyola. From their base at Goa, India, the Jesuits ventured forth to Japan and China: their goal to spread Christianity and promote the work of the Society. Over the years, their written accounts of Chinese life and customs grew. Athansius Kircher (1601-1680), a Jesuit mathematician, produced the wonderfully illustrated China Monumentis (1671). His work reached a wide audience, and promoted much that was new about China and her people. Kircher was also one of the first Europeans to alert the West to Egyptian hieroglyphics. Here he contrasts them with Chinese characters.

Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680

370 mm

Bookplate of Richard Caulfield L.L.D., Fellow Soc. Antiq. London, Corresp. Mem. Soc. Antiq. Normandy Cork.

Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis, qva sacris qua profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi roman. imper ... (Amstelodami, apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1667).

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China monumentis.