The Map of Knowledge
19 March 2020Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'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,...
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19 March 2020352 pages
9781509829620Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Superb . . . Ambitious but concise, deeply researched but elegantly written, and very entertaining, The Map of Knowledge is popular intellectual history at its bestDaily Telegraph
A sumptuous, glittering, endlessly fascinating book, written with passion, verve and humour.Catherine Nixey, author of The Darkening Age
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 . . . The story she tells is a fascinating one.Daisy Dunn, Sunday Times
If, say, the streets of 10th-century Baghdad seem a little remote, Moller's travelogue of ideas brings such places vividly to life - and explains how the modern world came into being along the way.History Revealed
