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The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

By Violet Moller

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities book

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

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In The Map of Knowledge, Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim C?rdoba to Catholic Toledo, from Salerno's medieval medical school to Palermo, capital of Sicily's vibrant mix of cultures and - finally - to Venice, where that great merchant city's printing presses would enable Euclid's geometry, Ptolemy's system of the stars and Galen's vast body of writings on medicine to spread even more widely. In tracing these fragile strands of knowledge from century to century, from east to west and north to south, Moller also reveals the web of connections between the Islamic world and Christendom, connections that would both preserve and transform astronomy, mathematics and medicine from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Vividly told and with a dazzling cast of characters, The Map of Knowledge is an evocative, nuanced and vibrant account of our common intellectual heritage.
Product details
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2019-02-21
Publication Date:
2019-02-21
Publisher:
Picador
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1509829601
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
600 g
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