17th Century Italian Jesuit Martino Martini

You'll feel miles away from traffic and smog. If you dig obscure history, an often-overlooked site (west of the front gate of the Siwo brewery on Xixi Lu) is the tomb of Italian Jesuit Martino Martini, an influential missionary in the sixteenth century whose corpse, according to legend, did not decay. Martini's most important work is Novus Atlas Sinensis. Interesting as missionary history is his Brevis Relatio de Numero et Qualitate Christianorum apud Sinas

Link (here)

Picture is of a detailed part of a map of the Province of Peking from Martino Martini’s Novus Atlas Sinensis (Amsterdam, 1665). Martini (1614-1661), the Tyrolese Jesuit, created this atlas, the first major geographical survey of that country published in Europe.