Illustration from page. 262 of the French translation of Athanasius Kircher's <i>China illsutrata</i>. Includes the picture of the <i>Sumxu</i> animal (based on <i>Sumxu</i>, i.e. squirrel in Boym's <i>Flora Sinensis</i>). A monkey sits in the back of the room, and a hunter with four dogs (or <i>sumxu</i>?) chases a dear outside.
<ul><li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kircher_-_China_illustrata_-_French_-_00320.jpg" title="File:Kircher - China illustrata - French - 00320.jpg">Kircher_-_China_illustrata_-_French_-_00320.jpg</a>: text: Athansius Kircher and his French translator; picture: an associate of Kircher (presumably, a Jesuit artist form Rome, ca. 1660)</li>
<li>derivative work: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vmenkov" title="User:Vmenkov">Vmenkov</a> (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Vmenkov" title="User talk:Vmenkov"><span class="signature-talk">talk</span></a>)</li></ul>
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