In 1624 the Dutch colonized Taiwan and for 38 years the Dutch East India Company operated a trading station at Anping in Tainan. They employed a large number of cartographers and possessed accurate descriptions and drawings of Taiwan geography and mineralogy covering the entire island.
1624 年荷蘭殖民台灣，長達 38 年，荷蘭東印度公司在台南安平設置商館，雇用不少繪圖師，對台灣全島的地理環境與礦產有精確的描繪。