Eratosthenes

• The Library of Pergamum was constructed in the third century B.C. by members of the Attalid dynasty in modern-day Turkey.
• It was housed in a temple complex devoted to Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.
• The ancient chronicler Pliny the Elder said the Library of Pergamum ...

The man who started the scientific revolution was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus.

Copernicus developed a heliocentric alternative to Ptolemy's planetary system. His system placed the Sun at the center instead of the Earth. The detailed controversial t...

Alexandria, with its Great Library, was marked as the intellectual capital of the world.

During the third century BCE, the Musaeum, an educational and research institution, was built in Alexandria. The Great Library was one part of the Musaeum and may have held around 700,...