02641cam a2200289 i 4500 380418807 TxAuBib 20190523120000.0 181202s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018054987 9780385541763 30.00 0385541767 30.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Moller, Violet. The map of knowledge [BOOK] : how classical ideas were lost and found : a history in seven cities / Violet Moller. First American edition. New York : Doubleday, [2019] xvii, 312 pages : illustrations (Some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 Knowledgeexplores 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 wayto 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20190523. East and West. Learning and scholarship Mediterranean Region History Medieval, 500-1500. Mediterranean Region Intellectual life History.