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THE MAP OF KNOWLEDGE: A Thousand-Year History... By Violet Moller (2019 HC){B3}
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- Subject Area
- Education, Science, History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Map of Knowledge : a Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Subject
- Ancient / General, General, History, Europe / General, Customs & Traditions, Europe / Medieval
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 22.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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" The Map of Knowledge is an endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision." --Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern , winner of the Pulitzer Prize After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance--an exciting debut history. The foundations of modern knowledge--philosophy, math, astronomy, geography--were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean--rare centers of knowledge in a dark world, where scholars supported by enlightened heads of state collected, translated and shared manuscripts. In 8th century Baghdad, Arab discoveries augmented Greek learning. Exchange within the thriving Muslim world brought that knowledge to Cordoba, Spain. Toledo became a famous center of translation from Arabic into Latin, a portal through which Greek and Arab ideas reached Western Europe. Salerno, on the Italian coast, was the great center of medical studies, and Sicily, ancient colony of the Greeks, was one of the few places in the West to retain contact with Greek culture and language. Scholars in these cities helped classical ideas make their way to Venice in the 15th century, where printers thrived and the Renaissance took root. The Map of Knowledge follows three key texts--Euclid's Elements , Ptolemy's The Almagest , and Galen's writings on medicine--on a perilous journey driven by insatiable curiosity about the world.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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0385541767
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9780385541763
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Publication Name
Map of Knowledge : a Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Ancient / General, General, History, Europe / General, Customs & Traditions, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education, Science, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
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2018-054987
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Az231.M65 2019
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"A lovely debut from a gifted young author. 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 "A sumptuous, glittering, endlessly fascinating book, written with passion, verve, and humor." --Catherine Nixey, author of The Darkening Age "Euclid's Elements is the seed from which my subject of mathematics grew. Thanks to this fascinating and meticulous account, I've had a glimpse of just how Euclid's text, together with works by Ptolemy and Galen, blossomed as they wound their way through the centuries and the seven cities at the heart of Violet Moller's book. What an adventure." --Marcus du Sautoy, professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and author of The Music of the Primes "An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents." --John Agard, poet and judge, Royal Society of Literature 2016 Jerwood Award "An exceptionally bold and important book" --Daisy Hay, author of Young Romantics and judge, Royal Society of Literature 2016 Jerwood Award
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