In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World,
Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered
America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence
that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology
that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern
world. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the
World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling
evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to
the New World. But his research has led him to astonishing new
discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didn't stop
there. Until now, scholars have considered that the Italian
Renaissance - the basis of our modern Western world - came about as
a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece and Rome.
A stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published. Gavin
Menzies makes the startling argument that a sophisticated Chinese
delegation visited Italy in 1434, sparked the Renaissance, and
forever changed the course of Western civilization. After that date
the authority of Aristotle and Ptolemy was overturned and artistic
conventions challenged, as was Arabic astronomy and cartography.
Florence and Venice of the 15th century attracted traders from
across the world. Menzies presents astonishing evidence that a
large Chinese fleet, official ambassadors of the Emperor, arrived
in Tuscany in 1434 where they met with Pope Eugenius IV in
Florence. A mass of information was given by the Chinese delegation
to the Pope and his entourage - concerning world maps (which
Menzies argues were later given to Columbus), astronomy,
mathematics, art, printing, architecture, steel manufacture, civil
engineering, military machines, surveying, cartography, genetics,
and more. It was this gift of knowledge that sparked the
inventiveness of the Renaissance - Da Vinci's inventions, the
Copernican revolution, Galileo, etc. Following 1434, Europeans
embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions,
which formed the basis of European civilization just as much as
Greek thought and Roman law. In short, China provided the spark
that set the Renaissance ablaze.
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Mon, 25 May 2009 | Review
by: P V.
Beware! Seriously pseudo-history this !!
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