FoundATION OF THE MUSEUM OF ALEXANDRIA.—The great Libraries,
Observatories, Botanical Gardens, Menageries, Dissecting Houses.— Its
Effect on the rapid Development of exact Knowledge.—Influence of
Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Apollonius, Ptolemy, Hipparchus,
on Geometry, Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Chronology, Geography.
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