5/21/2023 0 Comments 1434 by Gavin Menzies![]() ![]() Menzies sets the stage by recapitulating arguments from his first book, including the ingenious method for calculating longitude that Chinese navigators may have used. ![]() There, they provided the knowledge and technique-introducing the painter Alberti, for instance, to the methods of perspective drawing-that sparked the Renaissance. His thesis in both works is based on the seven (historically undisputed) voyages undertaken by a large Chinese sailing fleet between 14 while it is known that they traveled as far as east Africa, Menzies believes that they landed in Italy and sent a delegation to the Council of Venice, held in Florence in 1439. In Menzies's 1421, the amateur historian advanced a highly controversial hypothesis, that the Chinese discovered America in this follow-up, he credits the Renaissance not to classical Greek and Roman ideals (a ""Eurocentric view of history"") but again to the Chinese. ![]()
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