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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.

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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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