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Unlocking Past Mistakes In By James Donahue An ancient collection of carefully scribed manuscripts,
scrolls and clay tablets recording all of the available knowledge of the known world was once gathered in an amazing place
of learning at This great University, or Mouseion, commissioned by Ptolemy
I Soter, a successor to Alexander the Great, drew the world's greatest thinkers from the time it was erected in around 300
BC. Within its walls stood the Great Library of Alexandria, where all of the documents were placed. It is said that the number
of books this library held grew so large that a second library was built near the legendary During the three to six centuries that the City of In a television documentary, the late American astrophysicist
Carl Sagan said the Moseion drew "a community of scientists who discovered the sciences of physics, linguistics, medicine,
astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology and geology. Here scientific studies reached adulthood. Here genius
flourished." It was here that Archimedes invented the screw-shaped
water pump that remains in use today. Eratosthenes measured the diameter of the Earth. The Great Library contained several hundred thousand papyrus
and vellum scrolls, including over 120 plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Eurepides. The documents included a history of the
world, from the time of the Biblical Flood, by Prossos. The great mathematician Euclid in his book The Elements,
laid the foundations of mathematics, geometry and mathematical logic. It has been said that It was at this center that Archimedes also laid the foundations
for Differential Calculus and discovered the laws of governing the relation between a sphere and its surrounding cylinder,
and the measurement of the surface area of a ball. Among the many other great scholars at Eratosthenes created the Sieve of Eratosthenes which is
still used to find primary figures. Herophilus, the father of anatomy, laid down the scientific
principles of modern medicine. Erasistratus, considered the father of physiology, described
the human nervous system and epiglottis. But he didnt stop there. He also proved that the Earth was spherical and found a
way to accurately measure its circumference. Hipparchus defined latitude and longitude. Remember that this was all going on while the Enter Christianity, the crusades and the dark ages. Sometime
between about 40 AD and 400 AD the Great Library was burned to the ground. The culprits are recorded in faded historical records
as either Julius Caesar during the Alexandrian War, or Theophilus, a Christian Roman leader who was named Patriarch of Alexandria
from 385 to 412 AD. Edward Gibbons in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, states that Theophilus converted
the However it happened, the university was destroyed, never
to be rebuilt. For hundreds of years the story of the Great Library of Alexandria was nothing more than a myth. Some wondered
if it even existed. It appears that a Polish-Egyptian team of archaeologists
has now discovered the ruins of the university and library. Zahi Hawass, president of The tragedy of At that milestone in history, mankind was clearly misled
on a dark and destructive path of blindness that has continued for 2000 years.
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