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INTRODUCTION

I Setting the Scene

1 A LAST VOYAGE

2 THE EMPEROR’S AMBASSADOR

3 THE FLEETS ARE PREPARED FOR THE VOYAGE TO THE BARBARIANS

4 ZHENG HE’S NAVIGATORS’ CALCULATION OF LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE

5 VOYAGE TO THE RED SEA

6 CAIRO AND THE RED SEA–NILE CANAL

II China Ignites the Renaissance

7 TO THE VENICE OF NICCOLO DA CONTI

8 PAOLO TOSCANELLI’S FLORENCE

9 TOSCANELLI MEETS THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR

10 COLUMBUS’S AND MAGELLAN’S WORLD MAPS

11 THE WORLD MAPS OF JOHANNES SCHÖNER, MARTIN WALDSEEMÜLLER, AND ADMIRAL ZHENG HE

12 TOSCANELLI’S NEW ASTRONOMY

13 THE FLORENTINE MATHEMATICIANS: TOSCANELLI, ALBERTI, NICHOLAS OF CUSA, AND REGIOMONTANUS

14 LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI AND LEONARDO DA VINCI

15 LEONARDO DA VINCI AND CHINESE INVENTIONS

16 LEONARDO, DI GIORGIO, TACCOLA, AND ALBERTI

17 SILK AND RICE

18 GRAND CANALS: CHINA AND LOMBARDY

19 FIREARMS AND STEEL

21 CHINA’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE RENAISSANCE

III China’s Legacy

22 TRAGEDY ON THE HIGH SEAS: ZHENG HE’S FLEET DESTROYED BY A TSUNAMI

23 THE CONQUISTADORES’ INHERITANCE: OUR LADY OF VICTORY

Acknowledgments

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