Zheng He
Zheng He (Mandarinice 鄭和, simpliciter 郑和, pinyin Zhèng Hé), etiam Ma Sanbao  (Mandarinice 馬三寶 simpliciter 马三宝) et Hajji Mahmud Shamsuddin (Arabice حاجي محمود شمس الدين), fuit nauta Hui-Sinicus, explorator, legatus, et praefectus classis, qui navigationes ad Asiam Austrorientalem, Asiam Meridianam, Orientem Medium, Africam Orientalem, Cornuque Africae ab 1405 ad 1433 conduxit, Navigationes Zheng He vel Navigationes Cheng Ho una appellatas.

Fontes antiquiores 
 Ma Huan, Yingyai shenglan
 Fei Xin, Xingcha shenglan
 Gong Zhen, Xiyang fan guo zhi

Bibliographia 
 Editiones fontium
 J. V. G. Mills, interpr., Ying-yai Sheng-lan: 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores' [1433]. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1970. ISBN 0-521-01032-2 (Hakluyt Society) 
 Roderich Ptak, interpr., Fei Xin: Hsing-chʻa-sheng-lan: the overall survey of the star raft. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996. ISBN 3-447-03798-9 

 Eruditio
 Edward L. Dreyer, Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405–1433. Novi Eboraci: Pearson Longman, 2007. ISBN 9780321084439
 J. J. L. Duyvendak, "The True Dates of the Chinese Maritime Expeditions in the Early Fifteenth Century" in T'oung Pao vol. 34 (1938) pp. 341–413
 Paul Pelliot, "Les grands voyages maritimes chinois au début du XVème siècle" in T'oung Pao vol. 30 (1933) pp. 237–452 JSTOR
 W. W. Rockhill, "Notes on the Relations and Trade of China with the Eastern Archipelago and the Coasts of the Indian Ocean during the Fourteenth Century" in T'oung Pao 2a ser. vol. 14 (1913) pp. 473-476; vol. 15 (1914) pp. 419-447; vol. 16 (1915) pp. 61-159, 236-271, 374-392, 435-467, 604-626

Nexus externi 

Exploratores Africae
Exploratores Sinici
Geographi
Nati 1371
Mortui 1433
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