File:Yu Chi Thu.jpg
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English: The Yu Chi Thu (Map of the tracks of Yu the great ), the most remarkable cartographic work of its age in any culture , carved in stone in +1137 but probably dating from about +1100 (from Chavannes). The scale of the grid is 100 li to the division. The coastal outline is relatively firm and the precision of the network of river systems extraordinary. The size of the original (which bears the full explanatory text) which is now in the Pei Lin Museum at Sian, is about 3 ft square. The name of the geographer is not known. The copy of the map from Joseph Needham's 1959 Science and Civilization in China, including its copyrighted caption. |
| Date | reprint of an earlier rubbing of a c. 1136 engraving of an original map from c. 1100. |
| Source | Science and Civilization in China |
| Author | Joseph Needham for caption, unknown cartographer for the map |
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| 09:30, 18 February 2009 | 507 × 646 (202,759 bytes) | w:en:Hindutashravi (talk | contribs) | The Yu Chi Thu (Map of the tracks of Yu the great ), the most remarkable cartographic work of its age in any culture , carved in stone in +1137 but probably dating from about +1100(from Chavannes). The scale of the grid is 100 lito the devision. The coast |
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| current | 05:51, 8 January 2014 | | 507 × 646 (198 KB) | The Discoverer | Transferred from en.wikipedia: see original upload log above |
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