#violet moller

[ilikebigdata]

03.23.2021 // research

I’m procrastinating doing my assigned readings for my class on Thursday by spending my morning reading a book that describes how knowledge was suppressed during the rise of Christianity and that tracks how manuscripts for modern theories in math, astronomy, and medicine survived through copying and translating. Currently tracking Euclid’s Elements, Ptolemy’s The Almagest, and Galen’s writings from AD 300 to AD 500.

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Omar's Diary to 12th October, 2019

A racing disappointment, disturbed sleep, Paddington Bear and UNICEF

Well, he has done it again.  Another packed week in the life of Omar the philosophical feline with exquisite tastes.  A look back on the racing in Paris, Mitsi misbehaving, an interesting book, Paddington Bear and UNICEF.

[bigtickhk]

Review | During the Dark Ages, scholars in a few cities kept ancient knowledge alive

Violet Moller traces how Greek and Arab texts were preserved and passed on.

The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found by Violet Moller https://amzn.to/2IYt9Z6