Abstract
The 17th–18th centuries in Korea are characterized by the notable increase in the number of works devoted to geography and history. The reason for this increase was in the emergence of new knowledge about the world, coming to the Korean peninsula through regular contacts with the Manchu empire of Qing. It is worth mentioning that the essence of these works was radically different: On the one hand, in the higher aristocratic Confucian circles there were popular mythical Maps of the Tianxia (Celestial Empire), called cheonhado, appealing to ancient history; on the other hand, a group of sirhak scholars who fought for the “real knowledge”, tried to find a compromise between the new methods of studying space and the traditional sinocentric worldview.
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