Online free books download in pdf The Map of
The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found by Violet Moller
- The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
- Violet Moller
- Page: 336
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780385541763
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Online free books download in pdf The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found by Violet Moller 9780385541763 PDF PDB
Overview
“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, winner of the Pulitzer Prize After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance--an exciting debut history. The foundations of modern knowledge—philosophy, math, astronomy, geography—were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean—rare centers of knowledge in a dark world, where scholars supported by enlightened heads of state collected, translated and shared manuscripts. In 8th century Baghdad, Arab discoveries augmented Greek learning. Exchange within the thriving Muslim world brought that knowledge to Cordoba, Spain. Toledo became a famous center of translation from Arabic into Latin, a portal through which Greek and Arab ideas reached Western Europe. Salerno, on the Italian coast, was the great center of medical studies, and Sicily, ancient colony of the Greeks, was one of the few places in the West to retain contact with Greek culture and language. Scholars in these cities helped classical ideas make their way to Venice in the 15th century, where printers thrived and the Renaissance took root. The Map of Knowledge follows three key texts—Euclid's Elements, Ptolemy's The Almagest, and Galen's writings on medicine—on a perilous journey driven by insatiable curiosity about the world.
Download more ebooks: Public domain audiobooks download to mp3 Children of Ruin link, Ebook free download em portugues Easy German Step-by-Step, Second Edition 9781260455175 CHM DJVU read pdf, Free computer e books download Apocrypha: The Legend Of BABYMETAL (English literature) read book, Téléchargement de livres électroniques gratuits pour Palm Le carnet d'or et autres romans - L'été avant la nuit; Journal d'une voisine; Si vieillesse pouvait; La Terroriste 9782253088608 (French Edition) par Doris Lessing here, Ebook librarian download La amiga estupenda (Dos amigas 1) (My Brilliant Friend) (English literature) by Elena Ferrante 9781941999721 here, Free ebook downloads for kindle touch The Man Without Talent ePub read pdf, Ebooks english literature free download A Handful Of Stars in English 9781945322143 here,