The Shores of Wisdom - Derek Adie Flower - Books - Pharos Publications Ltd. - 9780953094226 - June 10, 2010
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The Shores of Wisdom

Derek Adie Flower

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The Shores of Wisdom

Two thousand three hundred years ago the world's first great Library and international Culture Centre was created by the Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter. The Shores of Wisdom tells the story of this ancient Library and Mouseion of Alexandria and how it influenced Western thought as much as, if not more than, Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum at Athens. It sketches the portraits of the men and women responsible for the Library's fame, such as Euclid and Archimedes, the astronomers Aristarchus and Claude Ptolemy, the polymath Eratosthenes, the philosopher Philo, not forgetting the early Christian Fathers, Clement and Origen, but also of those involved in its calamities and final destruction. The Shores of Wisdom describes, too, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina and how it has developed from an ambitious dream into a brilliant reality which will be a worthy successor to the Ancient Library during the coming millennium.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 10, 2010
ISBN13 9780953094226
Publishers Pharos Publications Ltd.
Pages 210
Dimensions 230 × 150 × 10 mm   ·   312 g
Language English  

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