Brook, Timothy (Author)
Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old.In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford's Bodleian Library--where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake-- yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659. The "Selden Map," as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving. Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Selden's map, he reveals for us the surprising links between an English scholar and merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected historical connections that made Vermeer's Hat an instant classic"--
...MoreReview Djoeke van Netten (2016) Review of "Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding The Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 392-393).
Review Batchelor, Robert (2014) Review of "Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding The Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 249-250).
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Golvers, Noël;
(2000)
Jesuit Cartographers in China: Francesco Brancati, S. J., and the Map (1661?) of Sungchiang Prefecture (Shanghai)
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Lindgren, Uta;
(2000)
Wissenschaftshistorische Bemerkungen zur Stellung von Martinis Novus Atlas Sinensis (1655)
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Hongping Annie Nie;
(2019)
The Selden Map of China: A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty
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Chen, Hui-hung;
(2007)
The Human Body as a Universe: Understanding Heaven by Visualization and Sensibility in Jesuit Cartography in China
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Michele Abee;
(2021)
The Spread of the Mercator Projection in Western European and United States Cartography
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Jan de Graeve;
(2015)
The Scientific Library of Gerhard Mercator
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Akerman, James R.;
(2015)
A View from America: Map Collecting, `Treasure-House' Libraries, and American Civic Influences on the History of Cartography
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Tom Harper;
(2018)
Atlas. A world of maps from the British Library
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Challis, David Milbank;
Rush, Andy;
(2009)
The Railways of Britain: An Unstudied Map Corpus
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Isabel Sá;
João Carlos Garcia;
Célia Cruz;
(2018)
Notícia explicativa do mundo: coleções de cartografia na Universidade de Porto. Exposição ‘Passado, Presente e Futuro da Cartografia Geológica’; and Exposição ‘Os mapas da Academia: a Cartografia na Biblioteca do Fundo Antigo da Universidade do Porto’
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Vivek Nanda;
Alexander Johnson;
(2015)
Cosmology to Cartography: A Cultural Journey of Indian Maps: From the Collections of Kalakriti Archives, Hyderabad and National Museum
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Fleet, Christopher;
Withers, Charles W. J.;
(2010)
Maps and Map History Using the Bartholomew Archive, National Library of Scotland
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Dyke, Paul Arthur Van;
(2011)
Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade
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Jeffrey Jaynes;
(2016)
Christianity Beyond Christendom: The Global Christian Experience on Medieval Mappaemundi and Early Modern World Maps
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Caroline Humphrey;
(2021)
Mongolian map-making as practice
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Courcelles, Dominique de;
(2013)
Parcourir le monde. Voyages d'Orient
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Martijn Storms;
Mario Cams;
Imre Josef Demhardt;
Ferjan Ormelinge;
(2019)
Mapping Asia: Cartographic encounters between East and West. Regional symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2017
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Mario Cams;
(2017)
Companions in Geography: East-West Collaboration in the Mapping of Qing China (c.1685-1735)
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Batchelor, Robert;
(2013)
The Selden Map Rediscovered: A Chinese Map of East Asian Shipping Routes, c.1619
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Richard de Grijs;
(2022)
Historical Chinese efforts to determine longitude at sea
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