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The Map of Knowledge How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found

Paperback • 2020 • English

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

By Violet Moller

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About the book

'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 In The Map of Knowledge 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 Co...Show more

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9781509829620

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

The Map of Knowledge How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found

Format

Paperback

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