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, an...