Another image from the Maqamat showing a doctor treating a patient (Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)ġ0. A detailed depiction of an Arabic library from al-Hariri’s the Maqamat (AKG Images)ĩ. A rose from Dioscorides’ De materia medica (Science & Society Picture Library / Getty Images)Ĩ. 79v–80r © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, reproduced by permission, with all rights reserved)ħ. Pages from a Greek copy of Ptolemy’s Almagest (Vat.gr.1594, fols. 13v–14r © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, reproduced by permission, with all rights reserved)Ħ. Pages from the copy of The Elements discovered by Peyrard (Vat.gr.190.pt.1 fols. The oldest surviving fragment of Euclid’s Elements (Wikimedia Commons)ĥ. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images)Ĥ. 2784, ff.101-101v., British Library, London, UK © British Library Board. A thirteenth-century Arabic depiction of Aristotle teaching a pupil (Or. The Doric columns of the Greek temple of Athena, incorporated into the walls of Syracuse Cathedral (Wikimedia Commons)ģ. Raphael’s School of Athens (Vatican Museums / Alamy)Ģ. To L, E and S, my three little stars Contentsġ. 'An endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.' Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 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. In tracing these fragile strands of knowledge from century to century, from east to west and north to south, Moller also reveals the web of connections between the Islamic world and Christendom, connections that would both preserve and transform astronomy, mathematics and medicine from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba 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. 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. 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 'A lovely debut from a gifted young author.
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