Explanation The Library of Alexandria is located in Egypt and is founded in the 3 rd century B.C.E in response to the order from Alexander the Great. The library is started with the greatest accumulation of ancient writings from history. The library and the museum that situated adjacent to it is considered as the first university in the world. The students from the Mediterranean regions came there to study and the scholars are worked and do research there. After the discovery of the Earth’s size by Eratosthenes, Euclid structured geometry. The astronomer Aristarchus of Samos claimed that Earth is a planet and all the planets are orbit around the Sun. The parts of speech such as noun and verb in all languages are defined and codified by Thrace. A physiologist known as Herophilus has established that the brain was the seat of intelligence. The first steam engines and gear trains are made by Heron. The principles of buoyancy on which successful shipbuilding is based was discovered by Archimedes...

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Chapter 2, Problem 2TC

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The contribution of Library of Alexandria to the development of marine science. Also describe the fate of information accumulated there and the reason why the residents of Alexandria became hostile to the librarians and the many achievements of the library.

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