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DescriptionHua I Thu, Map of China and the adjoining Barbarian Countries.jpg |
English: The Hua-i T'u "Map of China and the Barbarian Countries", one of the two most important monuments of mediaeval Chinese cartography, carved in stone in +1136/1137 but probably dating from about +1040 (per Chavannes). The size of the original (which bears the full explanatory text) which is now in the Stele Forest Museum at Xi'an, is about 3 ft (1 m) square. The name of the geographer is not known. Version of the page including the copyrighted companion text. |
Date | 1959, from an original c. 1136 |
Source | Joseph Needham: Science and Civilisation In China, Vol. 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and Earth, 1959. |
Author | Unknown authorUnknown author |
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Camera manufacturer | HP |
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Camera model | HP ScanJet 2400 |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 100 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 100 dpi |
Software used | ACD Systems Digital Imaging |
File change date and time | 16:45, 10 February 2009 |
Y and C positioning | Centered |
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DateTime subseconds | 421 |