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THE MAP OF KNOWLEDGE - VIOLET MOLLER TASCHENBUCH

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 Córdoba 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.  Vividly told and
with a dazzling cast of characters  The Map of Knowledge is an evocative  nuanced and vibrant
account of our common intellectual heritage.  'As the historian Violet Moller reveals in her
expansive book  the passage of ideas from antiquity through the Middle Ages and beyond was
fraught with obstacles . . . fascinating.' Daisy Dunn  Sunday Times   'What Moller does . . .
is to imagine vivid scenes and scenarios and to populate them with colourful historical figures
thinking big  bold  beautiful ideas.' Ian Sansom  Spectator   ' 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

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