Frontispiece for Athanasius Kircher's 1667 <i>China Illustrated</i>, published at Amsterdam by Elisée or Elizaeus Weyerstraet and Jan Janszoon van Waesberghe, depicting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Adam_Schall_von_Bell" class="extiw" title="w:Johann Adam Schall von Bell">Adam Schall</a>, an angel, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Ricci" class="extiw" title="w:Matteo Ricci">Matteo Ricci</a> displaying a map of China below <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier" class="extiw" title="w:Francis Xavier">SS Francis Xavier</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_Loyola" class="extiw" title="w:Ignatius Loyola">Ignatius Loyola</a> venerating an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHS" class="extiw" title="w:IHS">IHS</a> representing Jesus Christ surrounded by angels. Note the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mandarin_square" title="Category:Mandarin square">mandarin square</a> on Schall's robe.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Athanasius_Kircher" class="extiw" title="w:en:Athanasius Kircher"><span title="German Jesuit scholar">Athanasius Kircher</span></a>
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The frontispiece of Athanasius Kircher's <i>China Illustrata</i>. This scan is from <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.deutsches-museum.de/bib/entdeckt/alt_buch/buch0900.htm">http://www.deutsches-museum.de/bib/entdeckt/alt_buch/buch0900.htm</a>