Vincenzo Cornelli is a Franciscan monk and Venetian cartographer, he made the 13 Volume Atlante Veneto during 1690 to 1701, and two volume of it are named as Isolario Veneto. Isolario was a Mediterranean tradition, combing freely cartography with ethnographic information. There are one general map of China and seven regional maps of China in Isolario Veneto. One regional map usually contains two or three provinces. One of them is this Map of Guandong and Fujian. By comparison, we can see that Cornelli's maps of China are made by consulting Martino Martini's Novus Atlas Sinensis. Since the projection of the Map of China of Cornelli and Martini are different, there are some distinctions between these two maps. But the projection of Cornelli's regional maps is the same as that of Martini's maps of provinces of China. Cornelli combined the shape of Guangdong and Fujian from Martini's map together, and add the island of Taiwan which was omitted on Martini's map of Fujian, and the shape of Taiwan Island is as same as that on Martini's map of China, however with more details in it, the details may from other maps. The drawings of rivers are similar to those on Martini's map, and the mountains are drawn in simple style, and some figures of forests are added. On the left corner there are some notes about the brief information of about the districts and population of the two provinces. In the 'MARE DELLA CHINA' outside the land, there are several Chinese and Western ships. The notes and ships are also added by Cornelli. The shape of the Pearl River estuary is like a flask, which is same as that on Martini's map. There are two separate small islands on the east part of the bay which is the outer part of the estuary on the map. The two islands are noted with 'Hiangxan' and 'Macao', and the latter with a sign of a city beside it . 'Golfo di Macao' is written outside the bay which is full of islands, and the name is also created by Cornelli.'.
Reference:
[1]. Fuchs, J. L. (1983). Vincenzo Coronelli and the organization of knowledge: The twilight of seventeenth-century encyclopedism. University of Chicago.
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