@Natlyt @trude_dijkstra The route to Nieuhof's plate is probably like this:
1) Haipian xinjing 1596 (or another work of similar content, cf. https://t.co/VCXpvpcjor, p. 97 with n. 36): https://t.co/5Dc28fwJfv
2) Kircher 1654: https://t.co/bfrWgW6izG
3) Spitzel 1661: https://t.co/1tBDMQp0o7 https://t.co/epfnbebCKZ
@edwardW2 @CelPhineas Here's also the corresponding portion from one of the many Haipian 海篇 type dictionaries from ca. 1600 (here an 1596 ed. of a Haipan xinjing 海篇心鏡): https://t.co/5Dc28fwJfv
Kircher must have had a similar source; also cf. https://t.co/3iAgkL2n4J p. 97 with n. 36. https://t.co/UeGGpokRsP