Italian Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian (1614-1661)
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Martino Martini
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![Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum. Quo praeterquam quod universa magnetis natura, ejusque in omnibus artibus et scientiis usus nova methodo explicetur, e viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturae arcana per physica, medica, chymica, et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0028710/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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A man is opening a door to reveal the landscape of China; cherubim playing with a map and a globe showing China as described by Martino Martini. Engraving, ca. 1655.
Martino MartiniDate: [1655?]Reference: 567607i- Books
Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum. Quo praeterquam quod universa magnetis natura, ejusque in omnibus artibus et scientiis usus nova methodo explicetur, e viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturae arcana per physica, medica, chymica, et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
Athanasius KircherDate: 1643