The map of knowledge
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« Captured on the page, scientific ideas travelled around the Mediterranean world, lighting up different places at different times in history. Looking back from our twenty-first-century vantage point, we can see the ebb and flow of this knowledge, the periods of acceleration, and those of stagnation, the ideas that were rejected and lost, only to be rediscovered and revived centuries later. »
Seven, a very fine number, and Violet Moller has managed to create a perfect path into classical ideas that from pagan world to civilizations of the Book have shaped our culture around the Mediterranean sea and broadly in the western world.
Following Euclide’s Elements and Ptolemé’s Almagest in antic world, christian, jewish and muslim worlds for a millenia, she is guiding us through the best and brightest minds of their time, reminding us how collaboration and intelligence have been a key to progress.
The last chapter is a bittersweet one, when Europe became this incredible force tainted by a terribly wrong way to consider humans, while muslim world stopped literally their evolution reifiing relogious bigotry.
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