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. However, 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 offered 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.

1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

History

GAVIN MENZIES

Asia

Harper-perennial

Who Discovered America?

HarperCollins Publishers,Inc.

1421: The Year China Discovered The World

Ancient Civilizations

BANTAM BOOKS

This volume is full of illustrations, photographs- 34 maps and diagrams. 519 pages

1421: The Year China Discovered the World

World

After a chance conversation in Egypt in 2008, bestselling historian Gavin Menzies launched himself on a quest that would reveal the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis and her destruction. Through an examination of documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, artefacts and DNA evidence, Menzies slowly and painstakingly reveals a trading empire that spanned from the Great Lakes in North America to Kerala in India. And in doing so finally explains the incredible reality behind the legendary civilisation described by Plato and its disappearance. Reading like a real-life Indiana Jones story as ex-Royal Navy submarine captain, Menzies travels round the world in pursuit of his goal, this is epic, iconoclastic popular history.

The Lost Empire of Atlantis: An Ancient Mystery Revealed

Parenting & Relationships

Swordfish

Lost Empire of Atlantis

1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

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.

Americas

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.

This New York Times bestseller makes the fascinating argument that the Chinese discovered the Americas a full 70 years before Columbus. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, 1421 rewrites our understanding of history in a landmark work of historical investigation.

1421: The Year China Discovered America [Library Binding]

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

This New York Times bestseller makes the fascinating argument that the Chinese discovered the Americas a full 70 years before Columbus. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of their astonishing voyages, 1421 rewrites our understanding of history in a landmark work of historical investigation.

1421: The Year China Discovered America

My story is about the Minoan fleets that traveled the oceans of the world before the ghastly explosion on Thera in 1450 BC, which wiped out the Minoan civilization. Professor Spyridon Marinatos alerted us all to this adventure in 1964 when he chose to excavate the town of Akrotiri on Thera (Santorini). which had been a major Minoan base in the 2nd millennium BC. By good luck and judgement he stumbled upon the house of an admiral, buried in 1450 BC but still with intact walls. This gave the world its first sight of the superb Minoan ships which had then plied the world. Minoan shipbuilding expertise, which led to the intercontinental voyages without which there would have been no Atlantis civilization , is at the heart of my story.

The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed

William Morrow

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