{"id":5946,"date":"2006-01-17T12:57:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/01\/17\/who-discovered-america-zheng-who-joseph-kahn\/"},"modified":"2006-01-17T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T19:57:19","slug":"who-discovered-america-zheng-who-joseph-kahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/01\/who-discovered-america-zheng-who-joseph-kahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Discovered America? Zheng Who? &#8211; Joseph Kahn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/17\/international\/asia\/17map.html\" target=\"_blank\">From the New York Times<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA prominent Chinese lawyer and collector unveiled an old map on Monday that he and some supporters say should topple one of the central tenets of Western civilization: that Europeans were the first to sail around the world and discover America.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese map, which was drawn in 1763 but has a note on it saying it is a reproduction of a map dated 1418, presents the world as a globe with all the major continents rendered with an exactitude that European maps did not have for at least another century, after Columbus, Da Gama, Magellan, Dias and others had completed their renowned explorations.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nRead a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=75\" target=\"_blank\">refutation of this theory<\/a> by historian Jonathan Dresner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: A prominent Chinese lawyer and collector unveiled an old map on Monday that he and some supporters say should topple one of the central tenets of Western civilization: that Europeans were the first to sail around the world and discover America. 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