La llama de Mileto

In the 6th century BC. C. the Greek city of Mileto, located in the western coast of Anatolia, was the epicenter from which the intellectual revolution was unleashed that would lay the foundations for the development of our modern knowledge of the world. Tracing a thread that runs through nearly two thousand years of history from Thales of Miletus to Newton, John Freely tells the gripping tale of Greek science from its birth on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, through its consolidation in classical Athens and the Hellenistic world and the preservation of its legacy in the medieval Islamic world and Byzantium, until its definitive recovery as the foundation of the new ways of knowing that, condensed around our modern conception of science, would see the light in seventeenth-century Europe.