The Objects as Presents to the Qing Kangxi Court Filed in the French Missionaries' Manuscripts
The French missionaries'manuscripts include the lists of the scientific and artistic objects as gifts brought or sent to the Qing Kangxi(康熙)Court(1662-1723)before the voyages of the Amphitrite in 1698 and 1701,the first French merchant ship sailing directly to China in history.The analysis tries to identify the items in the lists by examining the contents of the letters to France from China by the Jesuit Father Jean de Fontaney(1643-1710),noting the signatures of the inventors,suppliers and manufacturers mentioned,an interactive group of scientific and artistic innovation.The information has been checked with illustrated European descriptive works specifying instructions for use published at the same time in the collection of the French Academy of Sciences.Some of them were available in the Beitang Library in Beijing.
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