Portrait of Adam Johann Schall Von Bell (1592-1666), German Jesuit, dressed in the contemporary Chinese clothing of a Confucian scholar, surrounded by astronomical and mathematical tools, including a celestial globe, an astrolabe, protractors, a map of China, map of the solar path; illustration for Athanasius Kircher, China Illustrata, by Anonymous, French, engraving on paper, circa 1667.
