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

Moller, Violet

 
9781509829606: The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
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ISBN 10 : 1509829601 ISBN 13 : 9781509829606
Editeur : Picador, 2019

Synopsis

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

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À propos de l'auteur

Violet Moller is a historian and writer who lives near Oxford with her husband and their three children. In November 2017, The Map of Knowledge won the Royal Society for Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-fiction. Violet has also written three books for the Bodleian Library: The Curious World of Dickens (co-authored with Clive Hurst), Oxford in Quotations and Bodleianalia (with Clare Cock-Starkey).

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Éditeur
Picador
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509829601
ISBN 13 
9781509829606
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781509829620: The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

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ISBN 10 :  1509829628 ISBN 13 :  9781509829620
Editeur : Picador, 2020
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