It also represents the sky as a sphere projected on a cylinder, a modern technique first adopted in Europe in the 15th century. No, a technique invented by Archimedes in 250 BC.
And if the picture is an accurate representation of this Chinese star chart, it is a lot more crude than the one made by Hipparkhos of Nicaea in about 150 BC.
The first modern star chart, by the way, had nothing to do with Galileo. It was compiled by Tycho de Brahe in the late 16th century, and no, he did not have a telescope.
I agree.
It seems like Brahe never gets credit for some reason :) BTW on Archimedes, an interesting point there is that the Hellenist astronomers were drawing from a long tradition of observations stretching back to the Egyptians and Babylonians as well. Ancients like Aristarchus had surprisingly advanced astronomical knowledge.