... Alexandrian library with its treasures of art, of literature and of science collected from every part of the known world. Century by century it grew, and could it have survived what untold treasures would have been ours to-day ! But in ...

... Alexandrian Library by the Mohammedan general Amru, A. D. 984, at the orders of the Caliph Abu Bekr. "If the books agree with the Koran, they are not needed ; if opposed, they are injurious." This was the argument which helped to put ...

... Alexandrian Library was Eratosthenes (B. c. 270), who may justly be called the Father of Geography. His work is in great part preserved to us in the pages of Strabo and Pliny. Having under his eye everything that had ever been 'written ...

... Alexandrian library." These bold words were reported to Hutchinson, and he rescinded the order for seizing the collections. Returning to France in 1802 with the magnificent zoological and zootomical collections thus literally saved from ...

... non-sequitur dear to the human mind. The legendary order of Caliph Omar for the destruction of the Alexandrian Library bespoke culture and barbarism at once: "If these books confirm the Koran, they need not be preserved ; if they 428.

... Alexandrian Library was burned when Julius CcEsar captured the place. The second disappeared at the time of the Arabian conquest. The university was restored by one of the caliphs two centuries after the conquest. The great University ...

... Alexandrian library (Wittgenstein 1997:64). Wittgenstein's therapeutic conception of philosophy can be illuminated by considering his strictly anti-theoretical attitude to philosophical problems. In a well-known passage in the ...

... Alexandrian library, a young man who had been a student at the now dismantled university was writing a medical work, the sixth volume of which dealt with surgery. Little work has been done by the Byzantine authors other than the copying ...

... Alexandrian Library and University, and even the present Moslem University at Cairo. The sources of information respecting the ancient schools are chiefly old hieratic papyri, some of which were actually exercise-books of students, and ...

... Alexandrian Library — you don't know where the information you want is stored, and you don't speak Greek. IS managers are attempting to ease the process of accessing important data by using Windows as a front end to the host. The ...