卜弥格《中国地图集》研究

Research on Michael Boym's Atlas of China

卜弥格《中国地图集》是现在发现的来华传教士最早绘制的中国地图集,在地理学史和汉学史上具有重要意义。本文在前人的基础上对以下重要问题做了研究:卜弥格在明朝已经基本灭亡、清朝已经统一全国时还要绘制一套明朝政区地图的原因;卜弥格《中国地图集》与基督教在华传播历史的关系;卜弥格在编撰《中国地图集》所介绍的植物、动物和矿物等博物学的知识;卜弥格在绘制《中国地图集》所采用的西方绘图的方法和中国传统绘法。

Michael Boym's Atlas of China is by far the earliest atlas of China drawn by an Occidental missionary who came to China,which is vitally important in the history of Geography and of Sinology.This paper makes a study on the following important problems: the reasons Michael Boym insisted on drawing an atlas about the administrative division of the Ming dynasty at the time of national unification by the Qing dynasty,the relationship between Michael Boym's Atlas of China and the history of missionaries in China,the knowledge of natural sciences,including botany,zoology and mineralogy that Michael Boym tried to introduce in his book,the Occidental and China's traditional cartographical methods that Michael Boym employed in his book.