tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post5935325485444465348..comments2024-03-23T16:51:22.303+05:30Comments on Amusing Planet: Zheng He’s Enormous Treasure ShipsKaushik Patowaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15000427721236718033noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-76386394897771586952020-12-14T14:54:36.644+05:302020-12-14T14:54:36.644+05:30Still it was an astonishing achievement of Chinese...Still it was an astonishing achievement of Chinese shipbuilding and exploration. The world would have been a different place if the Chinese technology had spread to the west. Makes you think.Mick Hill.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01604083228327972382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-30910758129982676142015-09-22T14:12:23.075+05:302015-09-22T14:12:23.075+05:30Except of course, the ancient Chinese did not use ...Except of course, the ancient Chinese did not use latitudes, and the maps they made back then were more chronological trip histories scrolling horizontally and didn't actually depict actual north, south, east and west directions, merely the landmarks sighted during the voyage. I doubt very much that a map of Cuba with latitude tables could've been generated by Zheng He given that he could not have known what latitudes was and the maps they drew were hardly accurate portrayals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-69145110809594464372015-07-21T20:17:01.138+05:302015-07-21T20:17:01.138+05:30Columbus quelled a mutiny, telling his sailors to ...Columbus quelled a mutiny, telling his sailors to press on, that they were not lost, because he knew where he was going.<br /><br />A ship of the Great Fleet had mapped Cuba 70 years before Columbus' voyage. That map, with latitude tables, was given to the Pope-in-Exile by a Chinese ambassador. It was passed on to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who then put out a call for explorers.<br /><br />Alas, the Great Fleet had been burned, the eunuch admirals beheaded, and the records destroyed by the new Emperor, who despised foreign contamination and a rising middle class. The Great Fleet was near forgotten for centuries.<br />That <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com