Saturday, January 22, 2011

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Kunyu Wanguo Quanto or at the center of the world (s)

Each person has his own center, his navel of the world. Out of it, he sees his world, takes himself and the other holds true, and his perception of "Reality". So many people there are, consequently, there are so many realities, and as long as we do not mean to be in possession of the only truth, that's quite ok.

Also, each nation has its own center, their center of the world. In our modern age with even more modern weapons of mass destruction is a much important to remain aware that there are so many national truths as there are nations. Let us therefore not first before the weapons, we guard ourselves against the first nations who think their reality is the only one, the only correct, the only true, the only true. Weapons, they used to be used by just those who think such.

If you want to a man's soul, the soul of a nation, have recognized, in essence, it has to look at it from their heart out.

The Italian priest Matteo Ricci was a member of the Jesuit Order and missionary work in China during the Ming Dynasty. Although he is still regarded as the greatest missionary in China, but had to learn that he too sees the world through the eyes of the Chinese is largely unknown.

Kunyu Wanguo Quanto - The Impossible Black Tulip
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu to German "A map of the many countries of the world," is the earliest European world map that was produced in the style of European maps. It was the first time in China in 1602 printed by the very Matteo Ricci and his Chinese colleagues, the Mandarin and the translator Zhong Wentao Li Zhizao, on behalf of Emperor Wanli. It is, if you will, a symbol of the synthesis the centers of two worlds. Ricci moved with her to the Chinese emperor Wangli the vast empire of China at the center of the world! But for the Chinese, the map a key to expand their understanding of the world outside China and to gain new insights.

Kunyu Wanguo Quantu is little more than 1.54 meters high and about 3.66 meters wide! Today there are only 6 copies of it, but most are in pretty bad shape. They have called this card because of their rarity, their relative importance and its exotic presentation, the "Black Tulip of Cartography," Cartography of the impossible black tulip. One of the best preserved Cards was sold in 2009 in London by a card dealer for $ 1 million and is now in the University of Minnesota.

The emergence of the "Black Tulip" is already 1602, the intensive cooperation between people from East and West was necessary and how does it successfully. The motivation that led to the creation of the card were, trade and exchange of goods between such different cultures, and so was once again the trade the driving force for the progress of civilization.

It would be hoped that such a spirit of cooperation, even today, over the centuries, has retained its strength and the spirit of cooperation remained in the exchange of cultural goods and alive.

The trade in arms is the perverted form of that spirit and perhaps it is ready to be a key task for the nations of the present, this demon an end before he upgraded to the end of humanity. Then, namely, that the search for the center of the worlds end-idly become valid.

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