Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where he is writing a dissertation on the Jesuit China mission’s impact on the early modern European sciences, Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Making of Modern Sciences. Beyond his interest in Chinese-European knowledge exchange, he is fascinated by the history of science in southern Africa and is undertaking a project in Spring 2022 exploring the effects of early modern capitalism in shaping different cartographic representations of the Cape Colony in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries at the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities.