@article{Buffon2015,
  author    = {Buffon, Giuseppe},
  title     = {The Franciscans in Cathay},
  series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  volume    = {XVI},
  journal   = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies},
  number    = {30},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-86920},
  pages     = {13 -- 28},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The study analyzes the process that leads to the elaboration of the thesis of a continuity between the Medieval Asia mission and the New World mission. This effort, undertaken by the Catholic historiography of the mission during the XIX century, is the result of the impulse provided by Alexander von Humboldt's studies about the discovery of America (Examen critique). The data about the geography of Asia collected by the missionaries-travelers working in the territory between Karakorum and Khanbalik during the XIII e XIV century reaches Christopher Colombus with the mediation of Roger Bacon, whom Humboldt himself esteems as a true cultural mediator. The conclusion of the article tries to identify reasons and modalities of the secularization of the missionary concept, i.e. the shift from the ideal of the propagation of the Christian message to a prevailing interest for cartography and topography, transformations arranged by a late medieval historiography that introduces into martyrolagia the loca toponomastica.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{SchwarzBuffonEtteetal.2015,
  author    = {Schwarz, Ingo and Buffon, Giuseppe and Ette, Ottmar and Garrido, Elisa and Heyd, Thomas and Lundberg, Karin and Werner, Petra},
  title     = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {XVI},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {30},
  editor    = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.18443/hinvol16iss302015},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-86895},
  pages     = {101},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Ingo Schwarz: „Uebrigens verbleibe ich mit besonderer Werthsch{\"a}tzung Euer gn{\"a}diger K{\"o}nig". Zum Briefwechsel Alexander von Humboldts mit Friedrich Wilhelm III. im September 1804 Giuseppe Buffon: The Franciscans in Cathay: memory of men and places. A Contribution for the genealogy of geographical knowledge of Alexander von Humboldt Ottmar Ette: Icono-graf{\´i}a, cali-graf{\´i}a, auto-graf{\´i}a. Sobre el arte de la visualizaci{\´o}n en los diarios del viaje americano de Alexander von Humboldt Elisa Garrido: Arte, ciencia y cultura visual en el atlas pintoresco: Vista de la Plaza Mayor de Mexico Thomas Heyd: Ascensi{\´o}n al Teide de Alexander von Humboldt Karin Lundberg: Networking Knowledge: Considering Alexander von Humboldt's Legacy in a New Shared Space in Education Petra Werner: In der Naturgeschichte „etwas H{\"o}heres suchen". Zu Humboldts Konzept der Pflanzengeographie},
  language  = {mul}
}