In 1667, the German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher published China Illustrated. It contained a drawing captioned "Bietala" – a Latinized form of Potala. The image was the work of European missionary Johann Grueber, a skilled surveyor and illustrator who had drawn the White Palace in Lhasa during a 1661 visit to Xizang. It gave Europeans their first-ever glimpse of the Potala Palace.