De zeven steden: Een reis door duizend jaar geschiedenis

Hoe ideeën uit de oudheid ons bereikten

Meulenhoff, 2019

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“A fantastic debut by a talented young author. Violet Moller brings to life how knowledge has reached us from antiquity to the present in a book that reads like an adventure novel. “Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads
A wonderful research into how knowledge about astronomy, mathematics and medicine has survived since ancient times.
The seven cities show how science has developed between classical antiquity and the Renaissance; a period that has been of great importance to our current thinking. We follow the most important ideas, the basis of contemporary medicine, mathematics and astronomy, on an exciting journey that was driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world.
Violet Moller outlines the route traveled, past seven cities and over a period of more than a thousand years. We are taken to sixth-century Alexandria and ninth-century Baghdad, to Islamic Cordoba and Catholic Toledo, to Salerno’s medieval medical school and to Palermo, the capital of Sicily with a lively mix of cultures, and finally to Venice, where the printing presses geometry and made it possible to spread the enormous amount of writings about the galaxy and medicine even better. Her dizzying travelogue gives a nuanced and dynamic picture of our common intellectual heritage.IN DUTCH!

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ISBN: 9789029093552

320 pages, 22,5 x 15 cm, illustrations in color & bl/w, hardcover, Dutch