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Table of Contents
Introduction
The Plays of ShakespeareIntroduction: At Long Last, the Bard<br>Opus 1: The Comedy of Errors<br>A Portrait of the Bard as a Young Man<br>Opus 2: Henry VI, Part 1<br>Opus 3: Henry VI, Part 2<br>Opus 4: Henry VI, Part 3<br>Opus 5: Richard III
The Theory of HeliocentrismIntroduction: The Man Who Thought Differently<br>Chapter 1: The Legacy of the Ancients<br>Chapter 2: The Reclusive Revolutionary<br>Chapter 3: The Book That Some People Read<br>Chapter 4: The Man Who Saw Infinity<br>Chapter 5: The New Star<br>Chapter 6: The Problem Child<br>Chapter 7: The Changing of the Guard<br>Chapter 8: An Elliptical Universe<br>Chapter 9: A Late Bloomer<br>Chapter 10: The Starry Messenger<br>Chapter 11: An Instrumental Truth<br>Chapter 12: The Harmony of the World<br>Chapter 13: The Shades of the Earth<br>Chapter 14: The Dialogue<br>Chapter 15: The Trial of Galileo<br>Epilogue: Infinity Embraced<br>Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
The Odyssey of MagellanChapter 1: East to Asia, West to Asia<br>Chapter 2: The Man<br>Chapter 3: The Plan<br>Chapter 4: The Fleet<br>Chapter 5: Underway<br>Chapter 6: The Atlantic Crossing<br>Chapter 7: A Sojourn in Eden<br>Chapter 8: Rivers of Disappointment<br>Chapter 9: Any Port in a Storm<br>Chapter 10: The Easter Mutiny<br>Chapter 11: Winter in Patagonia<br>Chapter 12: Folly and Cruelty<br>Chapter 13: The Strait<br>Chapter 14: The November Mutiny<br>Chapter 15: The Pacific Crossing<br>Chapter 16: The Happy Thieves<br>Chapter 17: A Philippine Thanksgiving<br>Chapter 18: Sex, Politics, and Religion<br>Chapter 19: The Battle of Mactan<br>Chapter 20: The Cebu City Massacre<br>Chapter 21: Philippine Vagabonds<br>Interlude: The Mutineers’ Return<br>Chapter 22: The Sultan’s Realm<br>Chapter 23: The Bloodless Mutiny<br>Chapter 24: A Pirate’s Life<br>Chapter 25: The Spice Islands<br>Chapter 26: Homeward Bound<br>Chapter 27: Into Unknown Oceans<br>Chapter 28: Around the Capes<br>Chapter 29: In the Belly of the Beast<br>Chapter 30: Lost and Found<br>Chapter 31: Life and Death<br>Epilogue: Sailor of Eternal Fame<br>Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
The Sistine ChapelChapter 1: A Dawning Age of Faith<br>Chapter 2: A Holy Roman Emperor<br>Chapter 3: A Deposer of Emperors<br>Chapter 4: Warriors of God<br>Chapter 5: A Model Pope?<br>Chapter 6: Faith and Reason<br>Chapter 7: A Century of Dissolution<br>Chapter 8: A Century of Transformation<br>Chapter 9: A Rebirth in the City of Flowers<br>Chapter 10: A Matter of Perspective<br>Chapter 11: The Artist and the Zealot<br>Chapter 12: The Artist and the Pope<br>Chapter 13: The Artist in the Chapel<br>Chapter 14: A Tour of the Chapel Ceiling<br>Chapter 15: The Proto-Protestants<br>Chapter 16: The Reformer<br>Chapter 17: The Diet of Worms<br>Chapter 18: The Pope of Wittenberg<br>Chapter 19: The Reformation Beyond Germany<br>Chapter 20: The Artist’s Return<br>Epilogue: The Counter-Reformation<br>Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
The Great Wall of ChinaIntroduction: Walls, Walls, and Yet Again Walls<br>Chapter 1: The Land, the People, and the Language<br>Chapter 2: Origin Stories<br>Chapter 3: The Beginning of Chinese Civilization<br>Chapter 4: Confucius<br>Chapter 5: The Way of the Old Master<br>Chapter 6: The Qin Dynasty<br>Chapter 7: The Han Dynasty<br>Chapter 8: The Era of Division<br>Chapter 9: The Tang Dynasty<br>Chapter 10: The Song Dynasty<br>Chapter 11: The Yuan Dynasty<br>Chapter 12: The Ming Dynasty<br>Chapter 13: The Early Qing Dynasty<br>Chapter 14: The Opium War<br>Chapter 15: God’s Second Son<br>Chapter 16: Radicals and Reactionaries<br>Chapter 17: A Family Affair<br>Chapter 18: Two Faces of Revolution<br>Chapter 19: The Long March<br>Chapter 20: A Disease of the Skin<br>Chapter 21: Dubious Allies<br>Chapter 22: A People’s Republic<br>Chapter 23: A Great Leap Forward?<br>Chapter 24: The Cultural Revolution<br>Chapter 25: The Passing of the Old Guard<br>Chapter 26: Two Miracles and a Massacre<br>Chapter 27: China, Incorporated<br>Chapter 28: A Slow Inhalation<br>Chapter 29: The Virus<br>Epilogue: Waiting to Exhale<br>Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
The Colossus of RhodesChapter 1: The Island of the Sun<br>Chapter 2: Before the Colossus<br>Chapter 3: Raising a Giant<br>Chapter 4: A Toppled Giant<br>Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
The Library and Lighthouse of AlexandriaChapter 1: The Founding<br>Chapter 2: The Beautiful Corpse<br>Chapter 3: A Museum and a Library<br>Chapter 4: A Lighthouse<br>Chapter 5: Alexandrian Mathematics<br>Chapter 6: Alexandrian Astronomy<br>Chapter 7: Alexandrian Medicine<br>Chapter 8: Literary Alexandria<br>Chapter 9: A Declining Power and a Rising One<br>Chapter 10: Cleopatra and Caesar<br>Chapter 11: Cleopatra and Antony<br>Chapter 12: A Fresh Start<br>Chapter 13: The Machine Man of Alexandria<br>Chapter 14: The Last of the Alexandrian Star Gazers<br>Chapter 15: The Prophet from Galilee<br>Chapter 16: Incarnations of Christ<br>Chapter 17: One...