Archival Resources Details

Ferdinand Verbiest - Records

Title
Ferdinand Verbiest - Records
Repository
National Library of Australia Pictures Collection
Reference
MAP RM 3499/1-2
Date Range
1670 - 1674
Description

The world map was produced in two hemispheres, each 1.75 metres in diameter and was published as a wood-cut print in 1674. The library has a map thought to be one of the possibly several manuscript versions upon which the wood-cut copies were based. It came into the library in the 1920s from W. Hardy Wilson, the architect and artist, who spent some time travelling in China but the map was not identified until 1970. It has undergone extensive conservation work but is available for study.

Quantity
1 map
Access
Available for reference

People

EOAS ID: archives/BSAR01465.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/archives/BSAR01465.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260