Earliest translation of the art of war

So the art of war written by Sun Tzu is a popular book in the west, appreciated by both military commanders, businessmen and so on.

How early can we have an accurate translation of the book and have that be widely dissimenated/appreciated in the west?

1500? 1800?
 
Depends on when the western world makes contact, and how much.

Thinking about it, in my Chaos TL this might happen earlier - and the first non-East Asian country to profit from it would be Russia!
 
So the art of war written by Sun Tzu is a popular book in the west, appreciated by both military commanders, businessmen and so on.
It's kind of appreciated trough some...how to put it, "magic" virtues due to its exotism when asian nations (Japan, then China) rose militarily against the West. (It would be interesting to compare the Art of War and Little Red Book popularity progression in the 60's)

An earlier translation, assuming you would have the links and men for that (which doesn't really seem likely, IMO, before the Jesuist missions) may simply not have found its public.
The, arguably incomplete, translations of the XVIIIth for instance, never really hold off, for instance.
 
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