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Nemesis games
Häftad bok. Orbit. 2015. 532 sidor.
Nyskick. Nemesis Games i nyskick. Har haft den i ca 4 år utan att ha läst den därför är den som ny.
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK- ISBN
- 9780356504230
- Titel
- Nemesis games
- Författare
- Corey, James S. A
- Utgivningsår
- 2015
- Omfång
- 532 sidor
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen.
Orbit 9780356504230 -
1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Ital...
Pocketbok. Harper Collins UK. 2009. 400 sidor.
Nära nyskick.
Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK- ISBN
- 9780007269556
- Titel
- 1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy & Ignited the Renaissance
- Författare
- Gavin Menzies
- Förlag
- Harper Collins UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2009
- Omfång
- 400 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 130 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 30 mm
- Vikt
- 430 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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.
Harper Collins UK 9780007269556
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