Item 88Sinicae historiae decas prima, res a gentis origine ad Christum natum in extrema Asia, sive Magno Sinarum Imperio gestas complexa
Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1659. Formerly a student of Athanasius Kircher at the Roman College, Martini was the first European to write a history of China based on original Chinese sources. Martini was sent to China by the Jesuit Order as a missionary in 1643 and traveled as far north as.....