1434
The Year a Magnificant Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
(Sprache: Englisch)
The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 presents compelling new evidence that the European Renaissance was spurred in large part by Chinese advances in science, art, and technology."9780061632648KurztextThe Renaissance formed the basis of our modern...
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The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 presents compelling new evidence that the European Renaissance was spurred in large part by Chinese advances in science, art, and technology.
"9780061632648KurztextThe Renaissance formed the basis of our modern world. Until now, scholars have considered that it came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now Gavin Menzies makes the startling arguement 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 were challenged, as was Arabic astronomy and cartography. This is a stunning reappraisal of history.
Florence and Venice of the 15th century were hubs of world trade, attracting traders from across the world and accounting for a sizeable influx of Asiatic peoples. Menzies presents 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 this 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. This gift of knowledge sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance--Da Vincis inventions, the Copernican revolution, Galileo, etc. Following 1434 Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions. These have 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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In his 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. Gavin Menzies also 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 ofWestern 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
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Autoren-Porträt von Gavin Menzies
The author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies was born in 1937 and lived in China for two years before the Second World War. He joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and served in submarines from 1959 to 1970. Since leaving the Royal Navy, he has returned to China and the Far East many times and in the course of researching 1421 he has visited 120 countries, over 900 museums and libraries and every major sea port of the late Middle Ages. Menzies is married with two daughters and lives in North London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gavin Menzies
- 2008, 384 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins US
- ISBN-10: 0061632643
- ISBN-13: 9780061632648
Sprache:
Englisch
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ô(Menzies) makes history sound like pure fun. . . . This high-spiritedness which infuses every page of 1421, makes his book a seductive read.ö (New York Times Magazine)
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