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Description:: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:4,400,000. (E 56°--E 72°/N 39°--N 23°). Shows Bokhara, Cabool, Afghanistan, Beloochistan and part of Persia. Relief shown by hachures."Aug. 15th 1838." Plate 94 taken from: Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Creator:: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain); J. & C. Walker (Firm)
Created:: 1838
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Last Updated:: 2018-01-18

Description:: Cartographic Details: Scale : approximately 1:2,200,000 Cover title."J. & C. Walker Sculpt." Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Each map covers part of India.
Creator:: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain); J. & C. Walker (Firm); Baldwin & Cradock.
Created:: 1831 - 1835
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Page Count:: 12
Last Updated:: 2021-02-17

Creator:: Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting. Meeting for Sufferings
Contributor:: Ady, John, -1812; Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784
Created:: 1784
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 19
Last Updated:: 2019-08-20

Creator:: Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting. Meeting for Sufferings. John Ady -1812. Anthony Benezet 1713-1784.
Created:: 1783
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 16
Last Updated:: 2019-08-20

Description:: Contents: Edit. 23 items (p. 1-9): “Remarques” on the 23 items (pp. 9-65); “Edit de l’Empereur de Chine ordonnant des largesses (a son avenement a la Coronne)” (p. 67-84), “Testamentum Imperaticis ex qua natus Imperator hodie Regnas Apud Sinas” (pp. 85-88); “Notae” (pp. 89-93) The death of the Emperor K’ang-hsi (1654-1722; emperor 1662-1722) occ...
Creator:: Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:: 1725?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 94
Last Updated:: 2020-07-30

Description:: This is a critique of the Chinese work I Ching(the Book of Changes) associated with Confucian science and doctrine. Probably written by a Jesuit, this manuscript is included in, and appears to have been bound with, a group of Jesuit documents of the early 18th century. The author attacks the overall concepts and cites particular texts as contrar...
Creator:: Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:: 1725?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 48
Last Updated:: 2020-07-30

Description:: This manuscript work is a critique of a printed attempt to identify events in Chinese history by their dates in Western chronology – to merge the two chronologies into one all-encompassing chronology (at page [3] the evidence of eclipses is cited). The critique is an essay on the nature of Chinese history, especially its early history, and on Ch...
Creator:: Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:: 1727?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 12
Last Updated:: 2020-07-30

Description:: The Shu-King, sometimes described as the “Canon of History” and the oldest source of pre-Confucian history – indeed, it is supposed to have been edited by Confucius himself – begins by extolling the virtues of the Emperor Yau and his successor Shun. A combination of good qualities, their lives were examples of perfection to be admired and emulat...
Creator:: Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:: 1725?
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 40
Last Updated:: 2020-07-30

Description:: By 1732 activities of European missions had been reduced by two decades of Chinese policy to the trading ports of Canton and Macao. This account of overt Chinese xenophobia was written shortly after the events described. The extensive crackdown began on August 20 with a search for fugitives believed to have sought safety in the eight churches in...
Creator:: Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:: 1732
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 16
Last Updated:: 2020-07-30

Description:: Extract from a manuscript on Chinese astronomy listing 29 constellations, their notation, longitude, grade, and signs. On the verso, crossed out in contemporary ink, is an unfinished list of Chinese fixed constellations compared with the longitudes of Tycho Brahe’s tables of 1628.
Creator:: Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:: 1725 - 1732
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Page Count:: 2
Last Updated:: 2020-07-30