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Vignaud, Henri.
Toscanelli and Columbus
. London: Sands, 1902.

Slaves in Florence

White, Lynn, J. “Tibet, India and Malaya as Sources of Medieval Technology.”
American Historical Review
65, no. 3 (April 1960): 515–26. Viewable at JSTOR.

Origo, Iris. “The Domestic Enemy: The Eastern Slaves in Tuscany in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century.”
Speculum
30 (1955): 321–66.

Vincenzo Lazzari. “Del Traffico e della Condizioni degli Schiavi.” In
Venezia Nei Tempi de Mezzo Miscellanea di Storia Italiana
2 (1862).

Romano, Denis. “The Regulation of Domestic Service in Renaissance Florence.”
Sixteenth Century Journal
22, no. 4 (1991).

Man, R. Livi. “La Sciavitu Domestica” (20 Sept. 1920): 139–43. Viewable at JSTOR.

Leonard Olschki: “Asiatic Exoticism in Italian Art of the Renaissance.”
The Art Bulletin
, vol. 26, no. 24 (June, 1944), pp. 95–106.

Tai Peng Wang, “1433 Zheng He's Delegation to the Papal Court of Florence”

(2) Toscanelli's observations of comets—Patricia Fortini Brown

(3) “Laetentur Caeli” Patricia Fortini Brown

Johnson, Paul.
The Papacy
. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997.

Lorenzetti, Giulio.
Venice and Its Lagoon
. Rome: instituto Poligra Fico Dellostato, 1961. (Trs. J. Guthrie)

Markham, C. R., trans.
The Journal of Christopher Columbus
. London: Hakluyt Society, 1892.

Vignaud, Henri.
Toscanelli and Columbus
. London: Sands, 1902.

Zinner, Ernst.
Regiomontanus: His Life and Work
. Translated by Ezra Brown. Leiden: Elsevier, 1990.

E. Bibliography for Chapters 9–12

Bedini, Silvio A.
The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia
. 2 vols. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Bergreen, Lawrence.
Over the Edge of the World: Megellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe.
New York: HarperPerennial, 2004.

Davies, Arthur. “Behaim. Martellus and Columbus.”
Geographical Journal
143.

Fernández-Armesto, Felipé.
Columbus.
London: G. Duckworth, 1996.

Galvão, Antonio.
Tratado dos diversos e desayados caminhos.
Lisbon: 1563.

Guillemard, F. H. H.
The Life of Ferdinand Magellan.
London: G. Philip & Son, 1890.

Menzies, Gavin.
1421: The Year China Discovered America.
New York: William Morrow, 2002.

Orejon, Antonio Muro, et al., eds.
Pleitos Columbinos.
8 vols. Seville: The History Co-operative, 1964–1984.

Pigafetta, Antonio.
Magellan's Voyage.
Translated by R. A. Skelton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1969.

———.
Magellan's Voyage. A Narrative Account of the First Voyage.
Translated and edited by R. A. Skelton. London: Folio Society, 1975.

Pigafetta, Antonio, Cdr. A. W. Millar.
The Straits of Magellan.
Portsmouth: UK Griffin, 1884.

Schoenrich, Otto.
The Legacy of Columbus: The Historic Litigation Involving His Discoveries, His Will, His Family and His Descendants.
(Jun) 2 vols. Glendale, Calif.: Pub Arthur H Clark, 1949.

Vignaud, Henry.
Toscanelli and Columbus.
London: Sands, 1902.

Zinner, Ernst.
Regiomontanus: His Life and Work.
Translated by Ezra Brown. Leiden: Elsevier, 1990.

Martin Waldseemüller

Far and away the most knowledgeable writer on Waldseemüller and his maps is Dr. Albert Ronsin, conservator of the Biliothèque et Musée de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. His best-known works relating to Waldseemüller's 1507 map are:

———. “Le baptême du quatrième continene, Amérique.”
Historia
544 (April 1992).

———. “La cartographe à Saint-Dié au debut du XVI siècle.” In
Patrimonie et culture en Lorraine.
Metz Serpenoise, 1980.

———. “La contribution alsacienne au baptême de l'Amérique.”
Bulletin de la Société Indus-trielle de Mulhouse
2 (1985).

———. “Découverte et baptême de l'Amérique.” Edited by Georges le Pape. Jarville, editions de l'est 1992.

———. “La Fortune d'un nom”: America. In Le baptême de nouveau monde à Saint-Diédes-Vosges. Grenoble: G. Millon, 1991.

———. “L'imprimerie humaniste à Saint-Dié au XVIe siècle.” In
“Mélanges Kolb.”
Wiesbaden: G. Pressler, 1969.

Fischer, Joseph, and R. von Weiser.
The Oldest Map with the Name America of the Year 1507 and the Carta Marina of the Year 1516 by M. Waldseemüller
. London: H. Stevens 1903. Fischer found the map.

Harris, Elizabeth. “The Waldseemüller World Map: A Typographic Appraisal.”
Imago Mundi
37 (1985).

Hébert, John R.
The Map That Named America
:
Martin Waldseemüller 1507 World Map
. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.

John Hessler: “Warping Waldseemueller: A Phenomenological and Computational study of the 1507 World map.”
Cartographia
41 (2006): pp. 101–113.

Karrow, Robert W.
Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps.
Chicago: Orbis Press, 1992.

Lestringant, Frank.
Mapping the Renaissance World
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Morison, Samuel Eliot.
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus.
Boston: 1942. (Describes Columbus believing he had met Chinese.)

Rae, John. “On the Naming of America.”
American Speech
39, no. 1 (Feb. 1964). Viewable on JSTOR. (This article argues that “America” was not the name given by Waldseemüller but was given by Native Americans who lived in Nicaragua. They used “Amerrique Mountains,” which Columbus misheard.

Randles, W. G. L. “South-East Africa as Shown on Selected Printed Maps of the Sixteenth Century.”
Imago Mundi
13 (1956). Viewable on JSTOR.

Ravenstein E. G., “Waldseemüller's Globe of 1507.”
Geographical Journal
20, no. 4. Viewable on JSTOR.

Shirley, Rodney W.
The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps 1472
–
1700.
London: Holland Press, 1983.

Soulsby, Basil H. “The First Map Containing the Name America.”
Geographical Journal
19 (1902). Viewable on JSTOR.

Stevenson, E. L. “Martin Waldseemüller and the Early Lusitano-Germanic Cartography of the New World.”
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
36.

Waldseemüller, Martin.
Cosmographiae introductio.

Amerigo Vespucci

Levillier, Roberto. “New Light on Vespucci's Third Voyage.”
Imago Mundi
11 (1954). Viewable on JSTOR.

Markham, C., ed.,
Vespucci: The Letters and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career
.

Sarnow, E. and Frubenbach, K. “Mundus Novus,” Strasbourg, 1903, subtitle “Ein Bericht Amerigo Vespucci an Lorenzo de Medici Über Seine Reise Nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1501 / 1502.”

Thacher, J. Boyd.
The Continent of America: Its Discovery; It's Baptism.
New York: William Evarts Benjamin, 1896.

Part 2—Schoener Johannes Schöner

Cooke, Charles H., ed.
Johan Schoner.
London: Henry Stevens, 1888.

Correr, Ambassador Francesco. Letter to Signoria of Venice. July 16, 1508. In
Raccolta Columbiana
, p. 115. The letter followed Correr's interview with Vespucci; Vespucci had not found the strait leading from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Nordenskiöld, A. E. “Remarkable Global Map of the Sixteenth Century.”
Journal of the American Geography Society
16 (1884).

Nunn, George E. “The Lost Globe Gores of Johann Schöner, 1523–1524: A Review.”
Geographical Review
17, no. 3 (July 1927). Viewable on JSTOR.

Ronsin, Albert. “Découverte et baptême de l'Amérique.” Edited by Georges le Pope. Montreal: Editions Georges Le Pape, 1979.

———. Schöner, Johannes.
Luculentissima Quoeda¯ Terra Totius Descriptio.
Nuremberg, 1515. Describes the Strait of Magellan.

Settlement of Santa Fe.
[Agreement between Catholic Monarchs and Christopher Columbus.] April 17, 1492. Held at Dirección General de Archivos y Bibliotecas.
Capitulaciones del
Almirante Don Cristóbal Colon y Salvo Conductos Para El Descubrimento de Nuevo Mundo.
Madrid, 1970.

Gadol, Joan.
Leon Battista Alberti: Universal Man of the Renaissance
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Wang, Tai Peng.

———. “Zheng He's Delegation to the Papal Court of Florence, 1433.” Research paper. Available on
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website.

———. “Zheng He, Wang Dayuan and Zheng Yijun: Some Insights.”
Asian Culture.
Singapore, June 2004: 54–62.

Zinner, Ernst.
Regiomontanus: His Life and Work.
Translated by Ezra Brown. Leiden: Elsevier, 1990.

Bedini, Silvio A., ed.
The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia.
2 vols. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Davies, Arthur. “Behain, Martellus and Columbus.” RGS.
Geographical Journal,
vol. 143.

Lambert, William. “Abstract of the Calculations to Ascertain the Longitude of the Capitol in the City of Washington from Greenwich Observatory, in England.”
Transactions of the American Historical Society.
New series. Vol. 1. Viewable on JSTOR.

Libbrecht, Ulrich.
Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century.
Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1973.

Menzies, Gavin.
1421: The Year China Discovered America.
New York: William Morrow, 2002.

Needham, Joseph.
Science and Civilisation in China.
Vols. 30 Section. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950.

Zinner, Ernst.
Regiomontanus: His Life and Work.
Translated by Ezra Brown. Leiden: Elsevier, 1990.

F. Bibliography for Chapters 13–14

Selected Works of Leon Battista Alberti:

De pictura,
1435

Della pittura,
1436

De re aedificatoria,
1452

De statua, ca.
1446

Descriptio urbis Romae,
1447

Ludi matematici, ca.
1450

De componendris cifris,
1467

 

Gadol, Joan.
Leon Battista Alberti: Universal Man of the Early Renaissance.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. There are many excellent books on Alberti. Joan Gadol's is written for people who are neither mathematicians nor knowledgeable about the use of perspective or cryptanalysis. She writes in a beautiful, clear style, and I have used her book extensively.

Grayson, Cecil. “ed Bari Laterza” 1973 “Opere Volgari, Vol Terzo: Trattati D'arte, Ludi Rerum Mathematicarum, Grammatica della Lingua Toscana, Opuscol, Amatori, Lettere.”

Needham, Joseph.
Science and Civilisation in China
. 30 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956.

Zinner, Ernst:
Regiomontanus: His Life and Work.
Translated by Ezra Brown. Leiden: Elsevier, 1990.

G. Bibliography for Chapters 15–16

Paolo Galluzzi.
The Art of Invention: Leonardo and the Renaissance Engineers
(London: Giunti, 1996). This has become the bible for the
1421
team. Galluzzi's book is lavishly illustrated, making it very simple to compare Taccola and Francesco's machines and see the evolution from Taccola to Francesco to Leonardo. We have studied Galluzzi's books with great care, then compared the drawings with Chinese books existing before 1430.

Clark, Kenneth.
Leonardo da Vinci
. Rev. ed. Introduction by Martin Kemp. London: Penguin Books, 1993.

Cianchi, Marco.
Leonardo's Machines.
Florence: Becocci Editore, 1984. This is a very clear and concise summary produced using the Leonardian Library of Vinci.

“Sur les pas de Léonard de Vinci.” Gonzague Saint Bris—Presses de la Renaissance. Gonzague's family the Saint Bris owned the château of Clos-Lucé for three centuries.

Cooper, Margaret Rice.
The Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci.
New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Deng Yinke.
Ancient Chinese Inventions
. Hong Kong: China Intercontinental Press, 2005.

Galdi G. P.,
Leonardo's Helicopter and Archimedes' Screw: The Principle of Action and Reaction.
Florence: Accademia Leonardo da Vinci, 1991.

Galluzzi, Paolo.
Leonardo, Engineer and Architect.
Montreal, 1987.

Hart, Ivor B.
The World of Leonardo da Vinci, Man of Science, Engineer and Dreamer of Flight
. London: Macdonald, 1961.

Heydenreich, Ludwig, Bern Dibner, and Ladislao Reti.
Leonardo the Inventor
. London: Hutchinson, 1980.

“Parc Leonardo da Vinci—Château du Clos-Lucé—Amboise”—Beaux Arts (Leonardo's home 1516 to 1519, the last 3 years of his life)

Kemp, Martin.
Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design.
London: V&A Publishing, 2006. This is lavishly illustrated and very readable.

Needham, Joseph.
Science and Civilisation in China.
7 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956–.

Pedretti Carlo, and Augusto Marinoni.
Codex Atlanticus.
Milan: Giunti, 2000.

Pedretti, Carlo. “
L'elicottero.
” In
Studi Vinciani
. Geneva, Studi Vinciani: 1957.