I am grateful to the following for permitting me to quote their work:
Chapter 1: Henry Tsai, “Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle,” Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001; Edward L. Dreyer, “Zheng He: China and the oceans in the early Ming Dynasty, 1405–1433,” on page 6 and page 144, Pearson Longman, 2006 (www.ablongman.com ).
Chapter 2: Henry Tsai, as above; Edward L. Dreyer, as above; Tai Peng Wang; Joseph Needham, “Science and Civilisation in China,” Vol. 19, pp. 49–50 and 109–110 (Vol. 19) and Vol. 32 pp. 100–175, Cambridge University Press, 1954–; Professor Anthony Reid, “South East Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450–1680,” Vol. 2, “Expansion and Crisis” on page 39, Yale University Press, 1993; Richard Hall “Empires of the Monsoon—A History of the Indian Ocean and its Invaders,” Harper Collins, 1996.
Chapter 3: Thatcher E. Deane, “Instruments and Observations at the Imperial Astronomical Bureau during the Ming Dynasty,” on pp. 126–140, Osiris 2nd series, Vol. 9, 1994. JSTOR (University of Chicago Press); Joseph Needham, as above (Spherical Trigonometry), Vol. 19 pp. 49–50 and 109–110, Cambridge University Press, 1954–; “Ancient Chinese Inventions” ed. Deng Yinke, China Intercontinental Press; Rosa Mui, Paul Dong, and Zhou Xin Yam, “Ancient Chinese Astronomer Gan De Discovered Jupiter’s Satellites 2000 Years Earlier than Galileo”; Professor Helmer Aslaksen and Ng Say Tiong, “Calendars, Interpolation, Gnomons and Armillary Spheres in the Work of Guo Shou Jing (1231–1314),” Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore.
Chapter 4: Professor Robert Cribbs.
Chapter 5: Paul Lunde, “The Navigator Ahmad Ibn Majid”; Richard Hall “Empires of the Monsoon” at pp. 88, 128, as above; Ibn Battuta, “The Travels of Ibn Battuta,” AD 1325–1354 pp. 773, 813, Trs. H.A.R. Gibb and C.F. Beckingham, 1994, Hakluyt Society, London, 1994. The Hakluyt Society was established in 1846 for the purpose of printing rare or unpublished voyages and travels. For further information please see their website at: www.hakluyt.com; Stanley Lane Pool, “A History of Egypt in the Middle Ages,” 1894.
Chapter 6: C. A. Redmount, “The Wadi Tumilat and the Canal of the Pharaohs,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 54, 1995. JSTOR, University of Chicago Press; Stanley Lane Pool, “A History of Egypt in the Middle Ages,” as above; James Aldridge, “Cairo: Biography of a City,” Macmillan, 1969, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan; R. L. Hudson, “Chinese Porcelain from Fustat,” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs Vol. 61, No. 354 (Sept. 1932), JSTOR—The University of Chicago; Fernand Brandel, “A History of Civilisations,” Trs. Richard Mayne, 1995, reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
Chapter 7: Fernand Brandel, “The Mediterranean in the Time of Philip II,” reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.; John Julius Norwich “A History of Venice,” 1983, reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.; Francis M. Rogers, “The travels of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal,” pp. 46–49, 256–266, 325, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1961 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College; European Journal of Human Genetics (2006) 14 (478–487); “Tibet, India and Malaya as Sources of Western Medieval Technology,” Lyn White Jr., American Historical Review Vol. 65, No. 3 (1960) JSTOR; Iris Origo, “The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a medieval Italian city,” 1992, reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
Chapter 8: Leonard Olschilli, “Asiatic Exoticism in Italian Art of the Early Renaissance,” The Art Bulletin Vol. 26, No. 2 (June 1944) JSTOR; Timothy J. McGee “Dinner Music for the Florentine Signoria, 1350–1450,” Speculum vol. 14, no. 1, Jan 1999, JSTOR; Mary Hollingsworth, “Patronage in Renaissance Italy,” John Murray, 1994; James Beck, “Leon Battista Alberti and the ‘Night Sky’ at San Lorenzo,” Artibus et Historiae, Vol. 10, No. 19 (1989) JSTOR; Patricia Fortini Brown, “Laetentur Caeli: the Journal of Florence and the Astronomical Fresco in the old society,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 44, 1981, JSTOR.
Chapter 9: Ernst Zinner, “Regiomontanus: his life and work,” Trs. E. Brown, Isis, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 650–652, Amsterdam.
Chapter 10: Marcel Destombes quoted by Professor Arthur Davies, Royal Geographic Society Records, vol. 143 p. 3; Ernst Zinner “Regiomontanus: his life and work,” Trs. E. Brown, as above; “The Catholic Encyclopedia”; Yang Long Shan, “Zhuyn Zhou chui Lu”; Joan Gadol, “Leon Battista Alberti, Universal Man of the Early Renaissance,” JSTOR, University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Chapter 13: E. Zinner “Regiomontanus: his life and work,” as above.
Chapter 14: Joan Gadol, pp. 155, 159, as above.
Chapter 15: Robert Temple, “The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention,” pp. 243, 259, an imprint of Carlton Publishing Group, 20 Mortimer St., London W1T 3SW; Chris Peers, “Warlords of China 700 BC to AD 1662,” 1998, Arms and Armour Press, Imprint of Cassell Group, Wellington House, 125 Strand, London; “Ancient Chinese Inventions” p. 112, China Intercontinental Press; Lynn White, Jr., “The Invention of the Parachute,” Technology and Culture 9:3 (1963), 462–467. © Society for the History of Technology. Reprinted with permission of The John Hopkins University Press; Reti, Ladisloa, “Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Treatise on Engineering and Its Plagiarists,” Technology and Culture, 4:3 (1963), 287. © Society for the History of Technology. Reprinted with permission of The John Hopkins University Press; Frank D. Prager and Gustina Scaglia, “Mariano Taccola and his book de Ingeneis,” MIT Press, 1972; Paolo Galluzzi, “The Art of Invention: Leonardo and the Renaissance Engineers.”
Chapter 17: John Hobson, “The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation,” Cambridge University Press, 2004; Joseph Needham, “Science and Civilisation in China,” Vol. 28, p. 225, as above; Sheldon Shapiro, “The Origin of the Suction Pump,” Technology and Culture 5, (1964), 571. © Society for the History of Technology. Reprinted with permission of The John Hopkins University Press; Christopher Hibbert, “The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici,” 1974, reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
Chapter 18: “The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention,” Robert Temple, as above; Joseph Needham, “Science and Civilisation in China,” as above; William Barclay Parsons, “Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance,” Baltimore, 1939.
Chapter 19: John R. Spencer, “Filarete’s Description of a Fifteenth Century Italian Iron Smelter at Ferriere,” Technology and Culture 4:2 (1963), 201–206. © Society for the History of Technology, reprinted with permission of The John Hopkins University Press; Lyn Thorndyke, “An Unidentified Work by Giovanni da’ Fontana: Liber de omnibus rebus naturalibus,” Isis, Vol. 15, No. 1, Tab. 1031 pp. 31–46, JSTOR; Wertime, Theodore A., “The Coming of Age of Steel,” Technology and Culture, 5:3 (1962), pp. 391–397. © Society for the History of Technology, reprinted with permission of The John Hopkins University Press; Robert Temple, “The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention,” as above; Joseph Needham, as above; Allen Stuart Wellers, “Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 1439–1501,” Chicago, 1943.
Chapter 20: “Ancient Chinese Inventions,” as above; Joseph Needham, as above.
Chapter 21: Dr. Gunnar Thompson; Ernst Zinner, as above; Noel M. Swerdlow, “The Derivation and First Draft of Copernicus’s Planetary Theory: A Translation of the Commentariolus with Commentary,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 117, No. 6, Symposium on Copernicus (Dec. 31, 1973), pp. 423–512, JSTOR, University of Chicago Press; New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, 1994, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.