SOSC 1731 Lecture 6: SOSC 1732 The Ancient Library of Alexandria and More Notes

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1731
• Professor: Lewis Code

Document Summary

All that survives is a tank & a forgotten cellar. It"s in the library annex, which was a temple but then a place of knowledge. The shelves are its only physical remains. It was the brain & glory of alexandria. All of the world"s knowledge was in here. In the great hall there may have been a mural of alexander in pharaoh clothes. first true research institute in the world. They studied everything & cosmos, which is the greek word for the order of the universe. It"s the opposite of chaos & connection of all things. Archimedes, greatest mechanical genius until the time of. Leonardo da vinci, astronomer talamede, who compiled sudos science of astrology, he showed that intellectual brilliance is guaranteed, and hepatica, a mathematician & astronomer, whose death caused the destruction of this city 7th centuries after it was founded.