Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: From 200 to 1500 St. Clement of Alexandria (d. 215 CE) St. Jerome (ca. 347-420) Socrates of Constantinople (b. ca. 380) Anonymous (ninth century) St. Euthymius of Mount Athos (ca.
955-1028) King Het'um I of Armenia (1215-1270) Marco Polo (ca. 1254-1324) Rashid al-Din (1247-1318) Odoric of Pordenone (1286?-1331) Chapter Two: From 1501 to 1600 Anjiro (1511-1550?) St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) Guillaume Postel (1510-1581) Martín de Rada (1533-1578) Bernardino de Escalante (ca. 1537 to after 1605) Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza (ca. 1540-1617) William Adams (1564-1620) Cesar Fredericke Chapter Three: From 1601 to 1700 Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) Samuel Purchas (1577?-1626) Nicolas Trigault (1577-1628) Roberto de Nobili (1577-1656) Richard Cocks (1566-1624) Cristoforo Borri (1583-1632) Álvaro Semedo (1585-1658) Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) Robert Knox (1641-1720) Abbé de Choisy (1644-1724) Alexandre, Chevalier de Chaumont (1640-1710) Fernaõ de Queyroz (1617-1688) Tomás Pereira (1645-1708) Guy Tachard (1651-1712) Nicolas Gervaise (ca. 1662-1729) Simon de la Loubère (1642-1729) Louis le Comte (1655-1728) Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) Chapter Four: From 1701 to 1800 Ippolito Desideri (1684-1733) François Valentijn (1666-1727) Jean Frédéric Bernard (1683-1744) and Bernard Picart (1673-1733) Jean Baptiste du Halde (1674-1743) Adriano di St. Thecla (1667-1765) Antonio Agostino Giorgi (1711-1797) Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) Voltaire (1694-1778) Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) Guillaume le Gentil (1725-1792) William Hurd Jean-Baptiste Grosier (1743-1823) Sir William Jones (1746-1794) Thomas Maurice (1754-1824) Louis-Mathieu Langlès (1763-1824) Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo (1748-1806) Francis Wilford (1761-1822) Colin Mackenzie (1753-1821) Captain Mahony Michael Symes (1761-1809) Vincenzo Sangermano (d.
1819) Chapter Five: From 1801 to 1844 Joseph Endelin de Joinville Francis Hamilton (1762-1829) Alexander Hamilton (1762-1824) Edward Moor (1771-1848) Francis Wilford (1761-1822) William Erskine (1773-1852) George Stanley Faber (1773-1854) Michel-Jean François Ozeray (1764-1859) Robert Fellowes (1770-1847) Francis (Hamilton) Buchanan (1762-1829) R. N. Golownin (1776-1831) John Crawfurd (1783-1868) John Davy (1790-1868) Julius Heinrich Klaproth (1783-1835) Thomas Abercrombie Trant (1805-1832) Samuel Davis (1760-1819) Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860) Karl Friedrich Neumann (1793-1870) Charles Coleman Edward Upham (1776-1834) Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832) George Turnour (1799-1843) Alexander Csoma de Korös (1784-1842) Eugène Burnouf (1801-1852) Notes Index.