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1434 by Gavin Menzies5/29/2023 ![]() In Beijing, Menzies presented his evidence, detailed in 1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, that a large Chinese fleet of eunuch admirals led by Zheng He, sent by Emperor Zhu Di, arrived in Tuscany in 1434, supposedly bringing with them advances in science and technology that would set the Renaissance ablaze – including Da Vinci's inventions, the Copernican revolution, and Galileo's theorems of astronomy. Menzies' astonishing new discoveries of Chinese influence on Western culture didn't stop there. ![]() In his New York Times bestseller 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, published in 2002, Menzies claimed that it was the Chinese who discovered America, not Columbus. ![]() Menzies' controversial 1434 attempts to stir up the world by – literally – rewriting the history between China and the West of the mid-15th century. Was someone making a sly reference when inviting "historian" Gavin Menzies to speak at the Bookworm earlier this month. ![]()
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