The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This history of China
derives mainly from the writings of the Flemish Jesuit Ferdinand
Verbiest (1623-1688), who was sent as a missionary to China, and
eventually, despite violent opposition, became Head of the
Mathematical Board and Director of the Beijing Observatory for the
Kangxi Emperor. The introduction to this 1854 edition sketches the
life of Verbiest and discusses the sources of the text; an appendix
gives a description by Verbiest himself of a hunting expedition on
which he accompanied the emperor.
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