英国学者孟席斯最近出版的《1 4 2 1年 :中国人发现美洲》一书 ,认为《罗兹地图》上的“澳洲”是复制了郑和船队分舟宗所绘制的地图 ,因此是郑和船队发现了澳洲。但是 ,中西海图是不同的体系 ,《罗兹地图》是地理大发现的产物 ,主要源于葡萄牙人的资料 ,地图上的“大爪哇”和“小爪哇”反映了当时欧洲人对爪哇岛和南方大陆的混乱认识 ,与郑和下西洋没有关系。孟席斯之说难以令人信服。 British scholar Menzies recently published “1421: Chinese Discoveries in America,” a book that “Rhodes map” on the “Australia” is a copy of Zheng He’s fleet zoning plot drawn map, therefore Zheng He fleet found Australia. However, the Sino-Western chart is a different system, “Rhodes map” is a product of geographical discovery, mainly from the Portuguese data, the map of “Javanese” and “Javanese” reflects the time of Europeans on Java Island And the confusion in the southern continent, and Zheng He and the West has nothing to do. Menzies is hard to convince.