![]() ![]() Trade Paperback available at Half Price Books. voyage to the Barbarians - Zheng He's navigators' calculation of latitude and longitude - Voyage to the Red Sea - Cairo and the Red Sea-Nile Canal - China ignites the Renaissance - To the Venice of Niccolo Da Conti - Paolo Toscanelli's Florence - Toscanelli meets the Chinese ambassador - Columbus's and Magellan's world maps - The world maps of Johannes Schoner, Martin Waldseemuller, and Admiral Zheng He - Toscanell's new astronomy - The Florentine mathematicians: Toscanelli, Nicholas of Cusa, and Regiomontanus - Leon Battista Alberti and Leonard Da Vinci - Leonardo Da Vinci and Chinese inventions - Leonardo, Di Giorgio, Taccola, and Alberti - Silk and rice - Grand canals: China and Lombardy - Firearms and steel - Printing - China's contribution to the Renaissance - China's legacy - Tragedy on the high seas: Zheng He's fleet destroyed by a Tsunami - The conquistadores' inheritance: Our Lady of Victory. 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Menzies, Gavin. ![]() Setting the scene - A last voyage - The emperor's ambassador - The fleets are prepared for the. ![]()
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