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The map of knowledge : how classical ideas were lost and found : a history in seven cities

Moller, Violet2019
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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.
Main title:
The map of knowledge : how classical ideas were lost and found : a history in seven cities / Violet Moller.
Author:
Moller, Violet, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2019.
Collation:
xiii, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509829606 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
World historyCivilizationEuclidGalenPtolemy, active 2nd centuryHistory
BRN:
1093507
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https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1093507

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