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Leonard Olschki: “Asiatic Exoticism in Italian Art of the Renaissance.”
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Tai Peng Wang, “1433 Zheng He's Delegation to the Papal Court of Florence”
(2) Toscanelli's observations of cometsâPatricia Fortini Brown
(3) “Laetentur Caeli” Patricia Fortini Brown
Johnson, Paul.
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Lorenzetti, Giulio.
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Regiomontanus: His Life and Work
. Translated by Ezra Brown. Leiden: Elsevier, 1990.
E. Bibliography for Chapters 9â12
Bedini, Silvio A.
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Bergreen, Lawrence.
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Fernández-Armesto, Felipé.
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Galvão, Antonio.
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Guillemard, F. H. H.
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Menzies, Gavin.
1421: The Year China Discovered America.
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Orejon, Antonio Muro, et al., eds.
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Pigafetta, Antonio.
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Translated by R. A. Skelton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1969.
âââ.
Magellan's Voyage. A Narrative Account of the First Voyage.
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Pigafetta, Antonio, Cdr. A. W. Millar.
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Schoenrich, Otto.
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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:
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Metz Serpenoise, 1980.
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Bulletin de la Société Indus-trielle de Mulhouse
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“Mélanges Kolb.”
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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
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Harris, Elizabeth. “The Waldseemüller World Map: A Typographic Appraisal.”
Imago Mundi
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Hébert, John R.
The Map That Named America
:
Martin Waldseemüller 1507 World Map
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John Hessler: “Warping Waldseemueller: A Phenomenological and Computational study of the 1507 World map.”
Cartographia
41 (2006): pp. 101â113.
Karrow, Robert W.
Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps.
Chicago: Orbis Press, 1992.
Lestringant, Frank.
Mapping the Renaissance World
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Morison, Samuel Eliot.
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American Speech
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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
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Shirley, Rodney W.
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Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
36.
Waldseemüller, Martin.
Cosmographiae introductio.
Amerigo Vespucci
Levillier, Roberto. “New Light on Vespucci's Third Voyage.”
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Markham, C., ed.,
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Sarnow, E. and Frubenbach, K. “Mundus Novus,” Strasbourg, 1903, subtitle “Ein Bericht Amerigo Vespucci an Lorenzo de Medici Ãber Seine Reise Nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1501 / 1502.”
Thacher, J. Boyd.
The Continent of America: Its Discovery; It's Baptism.
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Part 2âSchoener Johannes Schöner
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Nunn, George E. “The Lost Globe Gores of Johann Schöner, 1523â1524: A Review.”
Geographical Review
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Ronsin, Albert. “Découverte et baptême de l'Amérique.” Edited by Georges le Pope. Montreal: Editions Georges Le Pape, 1979.
âââ. 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.
âââ. “Zheng He's Delegation to the Papal Court of Florence, 1433.” Research paper. Available on
1434
website.
âââ. “Zheng He, Wang Dayuan and Zheng Yijun: Some Insights.”
Asian Culture.
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Zinner, Ernst.
Regiomontanus: His Life and Work.
Translated by Ezra Brown. Leiden: Elsevier, 1990.
Bedini, Silvio A., ed.
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2 vols. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Davies, Arthur. “Behain, Martellus and Columbus.” RGS.
Geographical Journal,
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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.
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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 13â14
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
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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 15â16
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 BrisâPresses 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 VinciâChâteau du Clos-LucéâAmboise”âBeaux 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, 1956â.
Pedretti Carlo, and Augusto Marinoni.
Codex Atlanticus.
Milan: Giunti, 2000.
Pedretti, Carlo. “
L'elicottero.
” In
Studi Vinciani
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