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THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY. I would like some information on the Alexandrian library. — L. P., Mederville, Iowa. The Alexandrian library was a remarkable collection of books, the largest of the ancient world. It was founded by the first ...
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The Alexandrian Library. Will you pleaao give something- of tho hlst-u-y sl«a; character nnd destruction of tha i ancient Alexamirinn Ubrury In Em-pt? Who were Ita nuthora? What wns tha chRrartT of Ita writings? Did It consist of ...
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ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY. Will you please print as long nn account ns space will permit of the library at Alexandria? — J. R. G., Storm Lake, la. The Alexandrian library was a remarkable collection of books, the largest of the ancient world ...
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... Alexandrian .Library By far t!ie most celebrated library antiquity, was the Alexandrian, the largest and most tLV3.eus of alt the ancient collections of buiLic.S!/ It was founded o "by Ptolemy Soter, . "Xing of Egypt (who died in 283 ...
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... Alexandrian library with ts 700,000 volumes founded by Ptolemy ioter. King of Egypt, 300 B. C., partly by the Romans under Julius Caesar and finally obliterated by the Christians in 301 A. D. This loss has been computed in terms of.
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... Alexandrian library. More than two thousand years ago we find the learned Ptolemy founding an academy called the Museum, and providing a library for its use. The son of that eminent man followed in the footsteps of his iather, adding to ...
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... Alexandrian Library, in Egypt, numbered no less than 700,000 volumes, two centuries before the Christian era. This library, founded B C. aw, by Ptolemy Soter, entirely overshadowed the more or less mythical collections alleged to have ...
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... Alexandrian Library was long renowned as a center of learning when the library at Pergamum began to show signs of overshadowing it. World Book Encylopedia reports that the Alexandrians promptly cut off the supply of papyrus to Pergamum ...
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... Alexandrian library of Egypt In the year 391 served as fuel for the public baths, the Library of Congress. Washington, was burned In 1814, and again by a defective Hue In 1851. The following Is a list of amounts given to city libraries ...
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... Alexandrian Library was long renowned as a center of learning when the library at Pergamum began to show signs. Hold Hold a a book book with tenderness,. SUNDAY. of overshadowing it. The Alexandrians promptly cut off the supply of papyrus ...