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Show ATHAIN AS1VS KIRCHER - dinfu, Cacanfu Quelinfu, Cingianfu, Sianfu whic i fuppt)[e alfo is now called Sig"mfi fituated not far from the Saffron River, which was takenby the Great Chans afte moft 1 three years Siege by the help of battering Engines ( as yet unknown i China) which he caufed Chriftian Artizans to make ; this happened Anno 12683 Panl# 'ffoms as Marcus Panlus Venetus (who with his Father Nicolas, and his Uncle that the were reflident with the Fraperour) relateth Second Book, Chap.58 g"fs‘ See Muarcus Panlus Venetus in hi was5 For Fu in the Chinefian Language fignifieth nothin tim clfe but a Great City, and al{o Ce#z added unto other words or names, denoteth {fmall or indifferent City, which words are proper and known unto no other Re Tongl VUlg" gion but only that of China 3 yet nothing {o clearly demonfirateth China to b Kin taken for Cathay, as the Aftronomical and Botanical Monuments of the Perfian which the Learned Facobus Golins, in his Appendix adjoyned unto the Atlss S pote 1 not pr nicus, hath made apparent unto us from the Aftronomical Tables of Nafirodim, Perfian Mathematician famous throughout the whole Eaft ; where you may plaiiq .R'eg:*'a this Cit ly fee the Cathaian names of the 12 hours, into which the natural day is divide among(t the Chinefes, or Cathaians, fo correfpondent unto the Chinefian, tha called Kin, they differ in nothing ; which isal(o teftified by as many of the Fathers of ou Society as have returned frf)m Chinato Rome Appendixun here I {hall fet down the Names pets But that it may be more evident Anno Occi riar The Names of the Hours, into which the Natural Day s divided amneng the Cathaians, or Chinefes S UERE V @ (80 74 Z;I:d f rious ern Pr o08Ak0 moft Cu, Chen, Yin, Mao, Xin, Su, V, Vi, Xin, Yien, Sid, Hai iits If any one (hall compare the Cycle of 6o years, which, as Nafirodim faith th Cathaians ufe in the Calculation or Account of their Days, Weeks, and So,la years, withthe Chinefian Account, he thall find the mode or. form of the Compu ;Z:':g mk '(t)l:at tation, and the Names by which they call it to be wholly the fame : andthe fam that we affirm concerning the Cathaian year, which they divide, as alfo the Zodjac mnto 24 Parts, beginning their year from the 1 5" degree of Agqnarins But concerning this, {ee the above-mentioned Golins in the place cited before who alledgeth Vlug Beg a Perfian Aftronomer for a Witnefs, from whofe Aftronomica |are \3 Fmp o ax;lon. Tables he fheweth evidentl y whatloever hath hitherto been delivered fr m th harmony or agreement of the Cathaian Calculations, or which is the {fame that o the Chinefes And Ialforead in the Arabian Phyfitians, the Musk that is foun g a r;nt & in China, often tobe called the Musk of Cathay, and alfo that Drink which i made of a certain Herb proper unto Cathay, is for the moft part termed Cha o Cathay fp.a City Andthe Mogores, which are originally Tartars; and had their defcen from the Line or Stock of Cingis-Can, and the other fucceeding potent Emperours, they, I fay, Ifind to be {o called (from their over-running of the Empir o China) by their Hiftorians the C hinefian-Mogulos But what he writeth concerning Quinfai,a City ofa wonderful and almoft incredible magnitude, isall foun Yo - Ghia thm" to be true at this day concerning the Metropolitan City Hanchen, of which Fathe Martinius the Author of the excellent Atlas Sinicus thus difcourfeth Folio 10 S,"‘P Whe That the European Cofwmographers may no longer erre in making inquiry after and rz'- diculonfly delineating of Quin(ai, mentioned by Marcus Paulus, I all bere 'giw th © wery exall portrallure of the [ame, the wery. (badow of which did no appear unto th Auibor of the ArchontologiaCofinica;ch if the DivineMajefty be propitions unto m Defign, I [ball peradwenture in tine feund ower the Theater of the Citie of China printed by the Chineles themfelves long before the Europeans,not known or [een, as },7, [uppofe Thi term hour hou fqua nels Whic |