《坤舆万国全图》 / Kunyu Wanguo Quantu

《坤舆万国全图》 enters the wiki through EP259 与苗师傅漫谈徐光启：四百年前如何让人变聪明？ as the world-map object that first drew 徐光启 toward 利玛窦 and Western learning. The episode treats the map as an intellectual shock: it made the world visible through unfamiliar coordinates, scale, and spatial order.

The source’s later discussion of a modern exhibition around the map also shows why maps are politically charged. Miao Wei recounts hearing claims that Ricci was a spy and Xu was a traitor, making the map a site where 西学东渐, cultural insecurity, and present-day suspicion meet.

The page therefore connects cartography to science communication: a map can explain, persuade, and unsettle because it changes what counts as the world.

Connections

• 利玛窦 - map maker and Jesuit knowledge mediator in the source.
• 徐光启 / Xu Guangqi - reader whose curiosity begins with the map.
• Late-Ming Western Learning / 晚明西学东渐 and Science Value Transmission / 科学价值观传入 - concepts opened by the source.
• Knowledge Monopoly and Science-Religion Civilization Tension - adjacent frames for contested knowledge objects.