Knowledge Map

In The Map of Knowledge, Violet Muller takes us on a dazzling journey through time and space, tracing the influence of three of humanity's greatest minds: Euclid in mathematics, Galen in medicine, and Ptolemy in astronomy. The story begins in Alexandria, where the spark of thought ignited, and continues through Abbasid Baghdad, the center of translation and science, to Cordoba, Toledo, Salerno, and Palermo, all the way to Venice, which spread these sciences with the invention of printing. Spanning a thousand years and seven cities, the author reveals a web of connections between Islamic and Christian civilizations, and how these connections preserved the legacy of astronomy, engineering, and medicine, carrying it into the Renaissance. This is a book about the genius of knowledge on its long journey, and about how science knows no borders, always remaining a map uniting East and West.

فيوليت مولر (مواليد القرن العشرين) مؤرخة وكاتبة بريطانية. تهتم بتاريخ العلوم الإسلامية وانتقالها إلى أوروبا. من كتبها «خريطة المعرفة» الذي ترجم إلى عدة لغات. وتُعرف بقدرتها على تبسيط التاريخ العلمي للقارئ العام.