The Map of Knowledge

How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

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<p>In <i>The Map of Knowledge</i>, 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. <br><br>In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Córdoba 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.<br><br>Vividly told and with a dazzling cast of characters, <i>The Map of Knowledge</i> is an evocative, nuanced and vibrant account of our common intellectual heritage.<br><br>'As the historian Violet Moller reveals in her expansive book, the passage of ideas from antiquity through the Middle Ages and beyond was fraught with obstacles . . . fascinating.' Daisy Dunn, <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>'What Moller does . . . is to imagine vivid scenes and scenarios and to populate them with colourful historical figures thinking big, bold, beautiful ideas.' Ian Sansom,<i> Spectator</i><br><br>'<i>The Map of Knowledge</i> is an endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.' Stephen Greenblatt, author of <i>The Swerve: How the World Became Modern</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781509829620

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 132 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan