She shows us how foundational works on math, astronomy, and medicine by Euclid, Ptolemy, and Galen eventually reached Venice, the major center of scientific printing, where their legacy was assured-having been rescued by the passionate curiosity of generations of readers. In November 2017, The Map of Knowledge won the Royal Society for Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-fiction. Violet Moller’s The Map of Knowledge takes us into the sparkling intellectual life that flourished there, highlighting the crucial role played by Arab scholars in improving the cornerstone ideas of Western thought. Violet Moller The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities Paperback 21 August 2020 by Violet Moller (Author) 364 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 399.95 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 2,500.00 1 Used from 2,977.50 3 New from 2,500.00 Paperback 421.00 16 New from 421. Violet Moller is a historian and writer who lives near Oxford with her husband and their three children.

After the great library at Alexandria was destroyed, Baghdad, Cordoba, Toledo, Salerno, and Palermo were rare outposts of knowledge in a dark world, where dedicated scholars collected, translated, and shared texts. Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsIn The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of. This thrilling history tracks three crucial books as they were passed hand to hand through seven cities during a perilous thousand-year journey of survival.

After the fall of Rome, as civilizations collapsed and libraries burned, ancient knowledge that would eventually fuel the Renaissance was at risk of being lost.

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