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Earning acceptance at the Ming Court, Ricci introduced to the Court numerous aspects and examples of European science and technology, including astronomy, engraving, firearms, and geography. He produced the first Chinese-language map of the world, and was at one time named to the Ming Imperial Bureau of Astronomy. An essay by Ricci included in the [[1604]] ''[[Printing in China|Chengshi Moyuan]]'' was the first ever publication in a romanized form of Chinese language.<ref>Soren Edgren, presentation, Chinese & Japanese Woodblock Books symposium, Freer Gallery of Art, July 2011.</ref> Among his other works is ''Tianzhu shiyi'' ("The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven"), an apologetic work explaining Christianity in classical Chinese.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 156.</ref>
Earning acceptance at the Ming Court, Ricci introduced to the Court numerous aspects and examples of European science and technology, including astronomy, engraving, firearms, and geography. He produced the first Chinese-language map of the world, and was at one time named to the Ming Imperial Bureau of Astronomy. An essay by Ricci included in the [[1604]] ''[[Printing in China|Chengshi Moyuan]]'' was the first ever publication in a romanized form of Chinese language.<ref>Soren Edgren, presentation, Chinese & Japanese Woodblock Books symposium, Freer Gallery of Art, July 2011.</ref> Among his other works is ''Tianzhu shiyi'' ("The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven"), an apologetic work explaining Christianity in classical Chinese.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 156.</ref>
Copies of Ricci's Chinese-language map of the world began to circulate in Japan in the late 17th century, and became the basis for numerous Japanese world maps.<ref>Gallery labels, National Museum of Japanese History.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/12590943955/in/photostream/]</ref>
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