CrusaderFrank
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Pretty much everything you were taught about history was wrong. I'm about 4 chapters in and the section on Chinese Astronomy is staggering, startling, breathtaking! If you know ANYTHING about astronomy, what Chinese astronomers KNEW for certain in the year 1280, yes 1280! will knock your socks off! Their knowledge of the Earth, Moon and Sun was vastly superior to anything the Europeans knew. The Chinese had the Moon phases accurate to 2 seconds, they knew the Moon orbited the Earth and that both orbited the Sun in an ellipse.
The Chinese fleet, like I suspect Solomon's fleet millennium prior, used the stars to ascertain longitude to within 30 miles.
I highly recommend this book!
The Chinese fleet, like I suspect Solomon's fleet millennium prior, used the stars to ascertain longitude to within 30 miles.
I highly recommend this book!