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Map of Knowledge, The: From Roman Egypt to Renaissance Venice, the Extraordinary Journey of the Great Ideas of the Ancient World

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Map of Knowledge, The: From Roman Egypt to Renaissance Venice, the Extraordinary Journey of the Great Ideas of the Ancient World

SKU: 9781509829606 Category: Product ID: 12448

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Title: Map of Knowledge, The: From Roman Egypt to Renaissance Venice, the Extraordinary Journey of the Great Ideas of the Ancient World
Author: MOLLER VIOLET
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 26/02/2019
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $36.00
Publishing status: Active

<b>'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwright</b>

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. 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, <i>The Map of Knowledge</i> is an evocative, nuanced and vibrant account of our common intellectual heritage.

ISBN: 9781509829606
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 352

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Weight 300 g
Dimensions 234 × 153 mm