1434
1434: the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance Gavin Menzies,
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, 2008.
ISBN: 0061492175
DDC: 945.05
LCC: G322
Summary:
The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern
world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a
rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But
now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument
that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically
advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European
Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese
intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form
the basis of western civilization today.--From amazon.com.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-345) and index.
Setting the Scene -- A Last Voyage -- The Emperor's Ambassador -- The
Fleets are Prepared for the Voyage to the Barbarians -- Zheng He's
Navigators' Calculation of Latitude and Longitude -- Voyage to the
Red Sea -- Cairo and the Red Sea-Nile Canal -- China Ignites the
Renaissance -- To The Venice of Niccolo Da Conti -- Paolo
Toscanelli's Florence -- Toscanelli Meets the Chinese Ambassador --
Columbus's and Magellan's World Maps -- The World Maps of Johannes
Schoner, Martin Waldseemuller, and Admiral Zheng He -- Toscanelli's
New Astronomy -- The Florentine Mathematicians: Toscanelli, Nicholas
of Cusa, and Regiomontanus -- Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo Da
Vinci -- Leonardo Da Vinci and Chinese Inventions -- Leonardo, Di
Giorgio, Taccola, and Alberti -- Silk and Rice -- Grand Canals: China
and Lombardy -- Firearms and Steel -- Printing -- China's
Contribution to the Renaissance -- China's Legacy -- Tragedy on the
High Seas: Zheng He's Fleet Destroyed by a Tsunami -- The
Conquistadores' Inheritance: Our Lady of Victory.
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