John Freely

Discover how ancient Greek science shaped the modern world in this captivating journey through philosophy, astronomy, medicine, and the cross-cultural legacy of knowledge. Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in the 6th century BC, that the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy sparked...

Throughout the 1960s, John Freely and Hilary Sumner-Boyd explored every alley, cove, and monument of their adopted home of Istanbul in between their teaching jobs. They created a legendary guidebook, covering 1,500 years of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, to a city that was still innocent of tourists. However, the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent...