The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller

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

Violet Moller

330 pages hardcover 2019

13 editions

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This book 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 Bag...

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