Mario Cams, an\nassistant professor from the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau\n(UM), received the Imago Mundi Prize 2019 at the International Conference for\nthe History of Cartography in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for his paper\ntitled \u2018Not Just a Jesuit Atlas of\nChina: Qing Imperial Cartography and Its European Connections\u2019.<\/p>
The Imago\nMundi Prize is awarded every two years to honour the Imago Mundi article judged\nto have made the most significant contribution to the discipline. Cams’ article\nchallenges longstanding views that the Qing court in the eighteenth century\nmerely adopted European techniques of mapmaking. The paper argues that the maps\nit produced were based on hybrid techniques, mixing established court practices\nwith those developed by the French Academy of Science. As a result, in the\n1710s and 1720s, Qing officials and European Jesuit missionaries in Beijing\ntogether facilitated the largest mapping project based on land surveying that\nthe world had ever seen.<\/p>
The article\nwas part of Cams\u2019s research projects, which focus on global exchanges in\ngeographic knowledge and mapmaking technologies in the 17th<\/sup> and 18th<\/sup>\ncentury.<\/p> \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p> <\/p> Source: Faculty of Arts and Humanities<\/p> Media Contact Information:Communications Office, University of Macau<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Albee Lei Tel\uff1a(853) 88228004Kelvin U Tel\uff1a(853) 88224322Email\uff1aprs.media@um.edu.moUM Website\uff1awww.um.edu.mo<\/p> <\/p>\n \n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mario Cams, an assistant professor from the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau (UM), received the Imago Mundi Prize 2019 at the International Conference for the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n