File:Mao Kun Map - stellar diagram 3 - P1100092.JPG

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This navigational chart is one of the stellar diagrams included in the Wubei Zhi (chapter 240, folio 23 v.). The chart specifies the guiding stars enroute from Poulo Rondo to Ceylon. It appears as stellar diagram III in "Appendix 6: Four stellar diagrams" of Mills's Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433] (1970).

Note: The Mao Kun map itself comprises 40 pages in chapter 240 of the Wubei Zhi from folio 2 v. to 22 r. (Mills 1970, 238), while these four stellar diagrams come after the map.

Date Published in ca. 1628
Source Wubei Zhi (ca. 1628).
Reproduced in: Mills, J.V.G. (1970). Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433].
Author Unknown, but the charts were derived from early-15th-century works by Zheng He's expeditionary navigators
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Mills, J.V.G. (1970). Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433]. pp. 335–346.

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