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The Map of Knowledge

- How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
Af: Violet Moller Engelsk Paperback

The Map of Knowledge

- How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
Af: Violet Moller Engelsk Paperback
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''Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.'' – Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

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 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.

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.

''An endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.'' – Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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''Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.'' – Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

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 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.

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.

''An endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.'' – Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781509829620
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1509829628
Kategori: Salerno
Udg. Dato: 19 mar 2020
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 130mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 19 mar 2020
Forfatter(e): Violet Moller
Forfatter(e) Violet Moller

Kategori Salerno

ISBN-13 9781509829620

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 196mm

Højde 130mm

Udg. Dato 19 mar 2020

Oplagsdato 19 mar 2020

Forlag Pan Macmillan

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