1434 Evidence

Part One: Setting the Scene

Chapter 1 – A Last Voyage

Chapter 2 – The Emperor’s Ambassador

Chapter 3 – The fleets are prepared for the voyage to the barbarians

Chapter 4 – Zheng He’s navigators’ calculation of latitude and longitude

Chapter 5 – Voyage to the Indian Ocean

Chapter 6 – Cairo and the Red Sea Nile Canal

Part Two: China Ignites the Renaissance

Chapter 7 – To the Venice of Niccolo da Conti

Chapter 8 – Paolo Toscanelli’s Florence

Chapter 9 – Toscanelli meets the Chinese ambassador

Chapter 10 – Columbus’ and Magellan’s World maps

Chapter 11 – The World maps of Schoener, Waldseemueller and Zheng He

Chapter 12 – Toscanelli’s new astronomy

Chapter 13 – The Florentine mathematicians: Toscanelli, Nicholas of Cusa and Regiomontanus

Chapter 14 – Alberti and da Vinci

Chapter 15 – Leonardo da Vinci and Chinese inventions

Chapter 16 – Da Vinci, di Giorgio, Taccola and Alberti

Chapter 17 – Silk and Rice

Chapter 18 – Grand Canals: China and Lombardy

Chapter 19 – Firearms and steel

Chapter 20 – Printing

Part Three: China's Legacy

Chapter 21 – China’s contribution to the Renaissance

Chapter 22 – Tragedy on the high seas: Zheng He’s fleets destroyed by a tsunami

Chapter 23 – The conquistadores’ inheritance