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The Chinese Origin of the Age of Discovery: A Reconstruction of the History of the Age of Discovery (Chinese Exploration) de Prof Chao C Chien
Descripción - Reseña del editor Is this some muckraking stunt?Beginning in late 15th century Europeans went to sea and ushered in the Age of Exploration, then went on to become the masters of the world. But why did they do it?History never furnished a coherent answer.This work reconstructs that lost history based on extant records. Over 300 illustrations are provided. The result is stunning.This book is virtually shunned by all academics, not because it is some crackpot concoction, but because it is a research that disagrees with mainstream orthodoxy. Do you know how hard it is to sail the world’s oceans? Today we have all kinds of devices to help us navigate the treacherous waters. We have satellite guidance for navigation, and sonar to detect hazards, for instance. Then, as all sailboat owners know, you must take sailing classes in order to obtain a sailing permit. To tell us that in the 15th century Europeans explorers went to sea en masse and discovered all sorts of lands hitherto unknown to them at a time when many people thought the earth was flat and that the Atlantic Ocean, called the Sea of Darkness, was not to be ventured in is a hard sell. Yet the Europeans did go to sea, and they did reach these lands. So the question remains: Why did they do it, and how did they do it? What made them suddenly want to explore, and how did they know how to sail the oceans? We’re in the 21st century. We can now sail to the outer edges of the solar system and beyond. Divine inspiration as an explanation no longer cuts it. As it were, the answer is simple. The conundrum is only the result of our historians refusing to look beyond their own culture. If we turn the history book page and look at that of other peoples in this world besides Europeans, we see the other parts of the picture. There were others that sailed the oceans too, and they had been doing it a lot earlier than Europeans! They braved the trails and passed on to the Europeans their maritime knowledge. In early 15th century the Chinese launched an epic maritime program. Headed by the legendary Admiral Zheng He, a magnificent Chinese fleet consisting of some 200 ocean-going ships built using the most advanced naval technologies the world had seen braved the world’s oceans for almost 30 years. Most Western scholars are unaware of this grand event. However, the European intelligentsia and mapmakers of the Age of Discovery knew about it. They did not know who these ancient Argonauts were, but they had records of their enterprise. It is these documents that incited and enabled the European explorers to go to sea.Nah! Nonsense! But it’s not nonsense. It is not even speculation. The records are there, IN EUROPEAN HANDS! This book is the research into those records; that evidence. Through diligent and meticulous analyses a lost history is reconstructed. The hundreds years old records are deciphered and the real history has emerged. It tells of a glorious and intriguing story, and the whole saga reads like a whodunit. If ever there is a page-turner, this is one. The history reconstruction effort is not merely to explain what made Columbus do what he did. It bears on history itself. It is intimately tied to the explosion of Western science and technologies, and the blossoming of the Renaissance, ultimately the rise of the West and its domination of the world. Putting it succinctly, this book is simply a must read for all historians and knowledge seekers, regardless of nationality. BiografÃa del autor Chao C. Chien spent most of his working career on the new human frontiers and futures, on the edge of mankind's new 'Age of Discoveries,' the new horizons of space science and space exploration. As part of the same, Mr. Chien, an engineer and mathematician by training, has held a number of engineering positions, including as Senior Systems Analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. There Mr. Chien participated in the Voyagers and Galileo Spacecraft Programs.Mr. Chien was born in China and spent his youth in Hong Kong. He grew up in a family steeped in history and scholarship. He began his academic training at Hong Kong's very British high school, Queen's College, where he obtained his first academic orientations. Subsequently, he attended and graduated from the University of Michigan's School of Engineering at Ann Arbor.Curious (and sceptical) by nature, Chien never stopped adding to his interests and horizons. For instance, he attended law school and MBA programs. In later years, drawing on his extensive backgrounds, Mr. Chien entered the academic teaching field. He has taught at various colleges, including Los Angeles City College. He also headed his own computer consulting firm.Professor Chien's personal life story is a bridge experience in a number of ways. At first a cultural child of the East, in his adult life he came to be shaped increasingly by the West. Though trained in the theories of natural sciences and mathematics, he applied his high-tech training and skills to a pursuit for the humanities, to explore issues of history and culture, especially focusing, critiquing, and writing on the gap of how history and culture are taught in the East and the West. Besides the present volume, he is the author of The Hunt for the Dragon, on the mystery of the missing Ming Dynasty Jianwen Emperor, In Search of Troy: An Unusual History Detective Story, and 2000 Years of World History, among other titles.Mr. Chien has long since become a U.S. citizen and currently resides in the USA.
Detalles del Libro
- Name: The Chinese Origin of the Age of Discovery: A Reconstruction of the History of the Age of Discovery (Chinese Exploration)
- Autor: Prof Chao C Chien
- Categoria: Libros,Ciencias, tecnologÃa y medicina,Ciencias de la Tierra
- Tamaño del archivo: 9 MB
- Tipos de archivo: PDF Document
- Descargada: 435 times
- Idioma: Español
- Archivos de estado: AVAILABLE
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