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'Menzies has come up with something entirely new!it is a startling claim.' Guardian
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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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Dieses Buch zeigt, worin Europas Stärke und Chinas Schwäche damals lag. Europa saugte alles auf und veränderte sich dadurch, China gab zwar großes Wissen an die Welt weiter, versäumte es aber lange, selbst Wissen aus dem Rest der Welt aufzunehmen. Heute ist es anders, China hat gelernt und entwickelt sich rasant weiter. Gut geschrieben, aber der Autor spekuliert manchmal etwas zu forsch, dennoch lesenswert.
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Mehr ist nicht zu sagen. Wer so etwas glaubt begibt sich auf ein gefährliches Feld der Historie, nämlich der Erkenntnis das die eigene Kultur nicht zu weitreichenden Änderungen fähig ist. In der Erweiterung folgen dann Wissenschaftler, die fremden Völkern das gänzlich absprechen. Man denke nur an den "ägyptischen Einfluss" auf die Mayas.
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Almost devoid of facts!
27. November 2009
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If you liked Menzies earlier book - 1421 - you will be disappointed in this follow-up. While 1421 appeared to be based on years of scholarship, much of it naval, by a dedicated and skilled naval officer, obviously pursuing an obsession, 1434 seems to have been dashed off to meet a publisher's deadline. The central thesis is that after Zheng He (hero of 1421) returned to China he was despatched to Europe armed with a complete compendium of all Chinese knowledge to enrich the barbarians. Unfortunately, the book is almost entirely devoid of substantiated facts - instead we are treated to reminiscences of holidays the author took with his wife, meetings with collaborators, trips to restaurants and florrid descriptions of the countryside that the Chinese sailors might have seen had they actually made then journies Menzies proposes. The sense of desperation the author must have had in trying to fill pages with something - anything - is almost palpable. This book is a very different beast to 1421. Admittedly, there are some intriguing findings(Pisanello's sketches of a Mongol face from the 1430s, Toscanelli's observation of comets,for example) that hint at some European contact with China in the early 15th century, but Menzies' thesis is far from convincing. One also gets the feeling that Menzies has deliberately held something back. At the end of 1421 we are decisively informed, after years of study, that the great Chinese treasures fleets were stood down, the information collected destroyed, and Zheng He made to retire. Yet at the beginning of 1434, we are told that within 2 years of their return the fleets were up and running again. Surely, Menzies (and the horde of Chinese scholars who have worked on this saga for decades) must have had some hint of this during his research for 1421? Overall, the book is intriguing yet must be taken with a large pinch of salt.
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A 21st Century Von Daniken
5. April 2009
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Menzies has a potentially interesting hypothesis, unfortunately unsupported by much in the way of evidence, other than that of the weak and circumstantial kind. That in itself would be ok if he would front up and admit that the book is a work of speculation and be prepared to critique his own argument. Unfortunately he does not, so the book has a polemical quality with the author clutching at every straw to support himself. To touch on two disciplines I know something about, some of his assertions around astronomy, and also linguistics are just plain wrong, which makes the book heavy going - its hard to relax and pay attention when your teeth are gritted.
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