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Some famous names of a few brilliant minds that worked at the Great Library of Alexandria. Archimedes - father of engineering Aristarchus of Samos - proposed the first heliocentric system of the universe Callimachus - a noted poet, critic and scholar Erasistratus - physician and co-founder of the Academy of Medicine in Alexandria along with Herophilus Eratosthenes - proved the earth is round and accurately calculated its circumference Euclid - father of geometry Herophilus - notable physician and founder of the scientific method Hipparchus - founder of trigonometry Pappus - mathematician Hero - father of mechanics
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:08:07 +0000

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