The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. In this surprising debut, historian Violet Moller retraces the paths ideas from three of Antiquity’s greatest scientistsEuclid, Galileo, and Ptolemy, traveled, for more one thousand years and through seven cities, exceptional centers of knowledge, where a series of curious and scholared characters, supported by a handful of enlightened. 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. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba 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. EPUB & PDF Ebook The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found EBOOK ONLINE DOWNLOAD. 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. ![]() 'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright ![]()
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