Talk:China Illustrata
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Van Tuyl
editWell, that was bizarre. The information we previously had in the article treated the same edition as three different works, two looking self published and one from the "Indian University Press", which Google thinks is either a typo for Indiana University Press (fair enough) or a fly-by-night GoDaddy website with endorsements from "Mr Gupta" but without an address, about us section, actual university involvement, etc. Other sites online list the same work as "Muscogee: Indian University Press". Internet Archive actually has a full (but only partially available) copy of a much better printing of the same work, listed as
- China Illustrata, with Sacred and Secular Monuments, Various Spectacles of Nature and Art, and Other Memorabilia, Oriental Series, Vol. 6, translated by Charles Don Van Tuyl, Bloomington: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1987, ISBN 0-933070-20-9.
Turns out, it was printed by both Indiana University Press (in 1987) and by "Indian University Press" at some point before that, the latter apparently being the faculty copy machine at what's now called Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma. There are some sources putting Van Tuyl's Principia Discordia-looking translation in the 1970s but the version we've got has its preface dated to 1986 without mention of revising any previous edition. — LlywelynII 18:16, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
Sources for future article expansion
editThere's a ton more in B. Szczesniak's "Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata" and more that's already in the article but could be better sourced using it or its citations. — LlywelynII 23:21, 14 September 2024 (UTC)