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The Library of Alexandria

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This one I had fun doing. It is a tribute to the Great Library of Alexandria, one of the wonders of human history. At it's peak it held around 500,000 to 1,000,000 scrolls. Many famous Greeks studied at the library, learning about everything they could. In 48 BC the library was burned down and much of it's information was lost. The only thing left were writings about it. It could be that the human race would be centuries more advanced if it had not been destroyed.

No one really knows what the library looked like, but in Carl Sagan's Cosmos, there is a depiction of it as it might of looked, and that is where I got my inspiration on it's appearance.

The library of Alexandria Egypt had laboratories, fountains, botanical gardens, a zoo, dissecting rooms, an astronomical observatory, and a medical school.

Some of the famous people who studied there:
-Hipparchus (mapped out the constellations and the their stars' brightness)
-Eratosthenes (found that the world was round)
-Euclid (systematized Geometry)
-Archimedes (one of the great mechanical geniuses)
-Aristarchus (figured out that the Earth goes around the sun and the stars are very far away)
-Berosus (Wrote a 3 volume history of the world. 432,000 years)
-Hypatia (Mathametician and Astronomer)

And who knows what else was lost in the library's destruction.
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t-harris's avatar
this is a really good illustration. thumbs up.