Image: Stellardiagram-Zhengho

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Description: This navigational chart is one of the four stellar diagrams included in the Wubei Zhi (chapter 240, folio 24 r.). The chart specifies the guiding stars enroute from Hormuz to Calicut. It appears as stellar diagram IV in "Appendix 6: Four stellar diagrams" of Mills's Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433] (1970).
Title: Stellardiagram-Zhengho
Credit: Wubei Zhi (ca. 1628). Reproduced in: Mills, J.V.G. (1970). Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433].
Author: Unknown, but the charts were derived from early-15th-century works by Zheng He's expeditionary navigators
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