1434 : the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance / Gavin Menzies.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780061492174
- ISBN: 0061492175
- Physical Description: xvi, 368 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : William Morrow, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 A Last Voyage 3 -- 2 Emperor's Ambassador 7 -- 3 Fleets are Prepared for the Voyage to the Barbarians 17 -- 4 Zheng He's Navigators' Calculation of Latitude and Longitude 29 -- 5 Voyage to the Red Sea 39 -- 6 Cairo and the Red Sea-Nile Canal 49 -- II China Ignites the Renaissance -- 7 To The Venice of Niccolo Da Conti 63 -- 8 Paolo Toscanelli's Florence 83 -- 9 Toscanelli Meets the Chinese Ambassador 94 -- 10 Columbus's and Magellan's World Maps 101 -- 11 World Maps of Johannes Schoner, Martin Waldseemuller, and Admiral Zheng He 110 -- 12 Toscanelli's New Astronomy 132 -- 13 Florentine Mathematicians: Toscanelli, Nicholas of Cusa, and Regiomontanus 141 -- 14 Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo Da Vinci 155 -- 15 Leonardo Da Vinci and Chinese Inventions 166 -- 16 Leonardo, Di Giorgio, Taccola, and Alberti 177 -- 17 Silk and Rice 197 -- 18 Grand Canals: China and Lombardy 206 -- 19 Firearms and Steel 216 -- 20 Printing 231 -- 21 China's Contribution to the Renaissance 238 -- III China's Legacy -- 22 Tragedy on the High Seas: Zheng He's Fleet Destroyed by a Tsunami 257 -- 23 Conquistadores' Inheritance: Our Lady of Victory 278.
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