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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
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