认识真实的世界不易,认识真实的异域世界更难,而认识真实的久远年代的异域世界,则是难上加难。由一幅地图,还原数百年前绘制地图者对“远在天边”国度的历史概貌,用“盲人摸象”来形容都不如用“蚂蚁摸象”更准确——因为这是超难的挑战。意大利两位学者力图挑战这个高难动作——他们合著的《天朝大国的景象——西方地图中的中国》一 It is not easy to know the real world, it is harder to know the true exotic world, and it is even harder to know the real world in a distant age. From a map, to restore the history of the map drawn hundreds of years ago to the state of “far beyond the horizon”, use “blind touch” to describe it as more accurate than “ant touch” because this It is super hard challenge. Two Italian scholars sought to challenge this dreadful action - their vision of a great nation in the sky - a China in a Western map