For what reason did the chinese take little interest in the maps brought by matteo ricci?

The Chinese took little interest in the maps brought by Matteo Ricci because they went counter to their belief that the world was flat. The maps depicted the world as a sphere. They also showed that China was just one country in the larger map. They whined that he treated the Ming Empire as a small insignificant country.

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

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