THE MAP OF KNOWLEDGE

In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity Eucli d, 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 Salernos medieval medical school to Palermo, capital of Sicilys vibr ant mix of cultures, and finally to Venice, where that great merchant citys printing presses would enable Euclids geometry, Pt olemys system of...[Llegir més]