It was at the library that Archimedes invented the screw-shaped water pump that is still in use today.At Alexandria Eratosthenes measured the diameter of the Earth, and Euclid discovered the rules of geometry.
Ptolemy wrote the Almagest at Alexandria. It was the most influential scientific book about the nature of the Universe for 1,500 years.
[via Ars Technica]
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