{"id":4312,"date":"2009-02-07T02:29:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T02:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2009-02-07T02:29:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T02:29:43","slug":"china-monumentis-by-athanasius-kircher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/02\/07\/china-monumentis-by-athanasius-kircher\/","title":{"rendered":"China Monumentis by Athanasius Kircher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/ak\/LAK022.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4313\" title=\"chinam1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/chinam1.jpg\" alt=\"chinam1.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/chinam1.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/chinam1-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>From the title pages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All of Kircher&#8217;s illustrations fascinate for their detail and often bizarre or startling images. The high quality scans of his 1667 opus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/ak\/LAK02.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>China Monumentis<\/em><\/a>, at VTS don&#8217;t disappoint, especially in the close-ups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/ak\/LAK027.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4314\" title=\"chinam2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/chinam2.jpg\" alt=\"chinam2.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/chinam2.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/chinam2-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Chinese mythology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\" target=\"_self\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the title pages. All of Kircher&#8217;s illustrations fascinate for their detail and often bizarre or startling images. The high quality scans of his 1667 opus, China Monumentis, at VTS don&#8217;t disappoint, especially in the close-ups. Chinese mythology. Elsewhere on { feuilleton } \u2022 The etching and engraving archive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,42],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-white","category-books","tag-athanasius-kircher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-17y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}