Martino Martini
✓ Source-basedfallingItalian Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian (1614-1661)
ScientistsLived 1614 to 1661 · aged 46
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Martino Martini was a Jesuit missionary in China. Born and raised in Trento, he worked as a cartographer and historian of ancient imperial China.
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Frontpage of Novus Atlas sinensis, by Martino Martini, Amsterdam, 1655.
Martini's grave in Hangzhou
A European artist's impression of a Manchu warrior devastating China, from the title page of Martini's Regni Sinensis a Tartaris devastati enarratio. Modern historians (e.g., Pamela Kyle Crossley in The Manchu, or D.E. Mungello) note the discrepancy between the picture and the content of the book: the severed head held by the warrior has a queue, which is a Manchu hairstyle (also imposed by Manchu on the population of conquered China), and is not likely to be had by a Ming loyalist.Scientists born in the 1610s 6
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1614 to 1661 · aged 46
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