The Map of Korea under the Sukjong King (1661–1720) of the Joseon Dynasty, now North Korea and South Korea, from the LOC copy of the 1941 Fuchs edition of the 1721 woodcut edition of the Kangxi Atlas. Prepared by Chinese cartographers under the direction of Jesuit missionaries during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty from (1) careful surveys of the border undertaken by Jean-Baptiste Régis, Pierre Jartoux, and Ehrenberg Xavier Fridelli in 1709 and 1710, (2) an official copy of an intentionally inexact and error-ridden original Korean map of the drainage basins south and southeast of Changbai Mountain provided to the ambassador Mukedeng by the prime minister Yi Yu (1645–1721) in 1713, (3) a general map of Korea's eight provinces with some inexact route and distance information, also provided to Mukedeng's embassy, and (4) survey information between the border and Seoul taken by the Jesuit-trained He Guozhu of the Bureau of Mathematics (Qintianjian), used to adjust the Korean figures for other areas. Adjacent territories left blank, and the ocean marked as 海 ("Sea"). Beijing and Greenwich prime meridians. Misidentified by the LOC as both the 1941 and 1943 edition. Prev. call number: G2305.1721 .F8 1943 Vault Shelf.
Compiled by Chinese and Jesuits under the Kangxi Emperor, edited by Walter Fuchs
1941, from 1721 originals, from maps drafted in the 1710s, from surveys carried out 1709, 1710, and 1713 and from a 1713 copy of an inexact Korean map of the era.
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