He had an office in the Library of Alexandria, and was commissioned by Ptolemy to make a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant.

The city hosted such leading lights as the mathematician Euclid and anatomist Herophilus ; constructed the great Library of Alexandria ; and translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek ( called the Septuagint for it was the work of 70 translators ).

The great Library of Alexandria was later burned.

There is a growing consensus among historians that the Library of Alexandria likely suffered from several destructive events, but that the destruction of Alexandria's pagan temples in the late 4th century was probably the most severe and final one.

Under the next three centuries of Hellenistic Egypt, the Coptic writing system evolved and the Library of Alexandria was opened, and this likely had an influence upon books of magic, with the trend on known incantations switching from simple health and protection charms to more specific things such as financial success and sexual fullfillment.

They likened the scope of the new facility to the Library of Alexandria.

His assassination prevented further and larger schemes, which included the construction of an unprecedented temple to Mars, a huge theater, and a library on the scale of the Library of Alexandria.

The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was the largest and most significant library of the ancient world.

The Ancient Library of Alexandria According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter ( ca. 367 BC — ca. 283 BC ).

The first known library of its kind to gather a serious collection of books from beyond its country's borders, the Library at Alexandria was charged with collecting all the world's knowledge.

The editors at the Library of Alexandria are especially well known for their work on Homeric texts.

For example, it is likely that even if the Library of Alexandria had hundreds of thousands of scrolls ( and thus perhaps tens of thousands of individual works ), some of these would have been duplicate copies or alternate versions of the same texts.

Artistic rendering of the Library of Alexandria, based on some archaeological evidence

The Library of Alexandria, in Egypt, was the largest and most significant great library of the ancient world.

Libraries were filled with parchment scrolls as at Library of Pergamum and on papyrus scrolls as at Alexandria: the export of prepared writing materials was a staple of commerce.

There were a few institutional or royal libraries which were open to an educated public ( such as the Serapeum collection of the Library of Alexandria, once the largest library in the ancient world ), but on the whole collections were private.

* 2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.

In the 2nd century BCE a great library was set up in Pergamon that rivalled the famous Library of Alexandria.

In " Silence in the Library ", while trying to open a wooden door, the Doctor tells Donna that the sonic screwdriver won't work because the door is made of wood, a fact later restated in " The Hungry Earth "; when Rory complains about this, the Doctor counters to not " diss the sonic.

Possibly related to this hobby is the fact that Gladstone was a lifelong bibliophile to the extent that it has been suggested that in his lifetime, he read around 20, 000 books, and eventually came to own a Library of over 32, 000.

Much has been made of the fact that she purchased a return rail ticket and a ticket to a suffragette dance later that day, both items held in the collection of the Women's Library in London, and both suggesting that martyrdom was not her intention.

Contemporaries found great irony in the fact that the iconoclast Radcliffe, who scorned book-learning, should bequeath a substantial sum for the founding of the Radcliffe Library.

The birth date is unknown likely due to the fact he was baptized in a Dissenting church, which either did not keep or was unable to preserve its baptismal records ; accord Royal Society Library and Archive catalog, Thomas Bayes ( 1701 – 1761 )</ li >

Rosa created Guardians of the Lost Library at the request of Scandinavia-based, European Disney publisher Egmont in reference to the fact that Norway had officially declared 1993 to be " The Year of The Book " in order to promote reading ( as the story was published in Norway and Denmark in 1993, one year prior to its first edition in the original English ).

This not only explains why the Guidebook facilitated them to follow the trail of the Lost Library all over the world with its enormous knowledge base, but also the fact the Junior Woodchuck's logo, based on the letters J and two Ws, looks uncannily like the Ibis Emblem of the Guardians of the Lost Library.

The Present Makteba Qadiria ( Qadri Library ) is in fact, the altered name of his personal library.

Curiously, CP / CMS was contributed to the Type-III Library by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and not by IBM, despite the fact that the system was built by IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center.

On February 26, 2007 a news conference was held at the New York Public Library by director James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici to discuss their documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, which discusses the 1980 finding of the Talpiot Tomb, which they claim is in fact Jesus ' family tomb.

Some use the term " bibliomania " interchangeably with " bibliophily " and in fact, the Library of Congress does not use the term " bibliophily ," but rather refers its readers to either book collecting or bibliomania.

The fact that it can also be pronounced ' see URL ' also helped ; it works as an abbreviation for " Client URL Request Library " or the recursive version: " Curl URL Request Library ".

The fact that this bloodline trait has not shown itself at the usual age of around eleven, as well as the absence of any truly understanding or sympathetic other in her life, leaves Lirael emotionally distressed and very unhappy until her appointment to the Clayr's Library on her fourteenth birthday.

After a while MacPhee, a character who appears in That Hideous Strength ( though here he is a Scot, not an Irishman ), points out that the " Dark Tower " is in fact a replica of the new Cambridge University Library.

The title and Apology were kept, but the result was wildly different ( Clemens's reaction is mildly suggested by the title of Johnson's Fall 1937 article in the Mark Twain Quarterly, " When Mark Twain Cursed Me "); so different, in fact, that one authority has said that it should have really been called The Harper Library of Humor.

The mansion of the Trikoupis family, Palamas ' House, Valvios Library, Christos and Sophia Moschandreou Gallery of Modern Art emphasize the fact that Missolonghi has always been a city of some wealth and refinement.

In fact, Davis's complete library is now housed within the Edgar Cayce Library.

The Toowong Library did in fact close but local residents ’ action saw it re-opened in 1983.

This may be attributed to the fact that the ratings do not consider part-time staff and only account for volumes of the university library, while NSU students also have access to a number of institute libraries as well as the large Academy of Sciences Library which is located across the street from the main University building.

The lack of historical sources was compounded by the fact that although sixteen volumes of writings of the Accaemia del Cimento were copied in the early eighteenth century by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, assistant librarian of the Magliabecchi Library, the original manuscripts were lost.

Its principal translator was Casiodoro de Reina, an independent Lutheran theologian, but a manuscript found at the Bodleian Library gives further evidence of the fact that the Spanish Bible was a community project.

Despite the fact that the size of his instruments make touring difficult, his work has been presented at Ballhaus Naunyn Berlin ( Germany ), the Chateau de la Napoule ( France ), the Norton Simon Museum of Art, the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, the Pacific Asia Museum, California Institute of the Arts, Pomona College, Pierce College, Villa Aurora Foundation for European American Relations, the Schindler House, Beyond Baroque, the Brand Library, New Langton Arts, as well as numerous live performances on radio KPFK, KCRW, and KXLU.

The Library of Congress said that in 1994 Belarus had ground forces of 52, 500.

The Anthropology Library is especially large, with 120, 000 volumes However, the Paul Hamlyn Library, which had become the central reference library of the British Museum and the only library there freely open to the general public, closed permanently in August 2011.

He believed that because the popular Library of Congress system had been designed for a specific library ( the Library of Congress ) it had no use as a standard system outside that library.

When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.

His heirs sent his vast library to Catherine II, who had it deposited at the National Library of Russia.

" More recently, reviewers from the American Library Association were surprised to find that most educational articles had been eliminated from the 1992 Macropædia, along with the article on psychology.

The Library of Congress had Gumby as a spokescharacter from 1994 to 1995, due to a common sequence in his shows where Gumby walks into a book, and then experiences the world inside the book as a tangible place.

Prince Eugene's Italian manuscript had been presented to him in 1713 by John Frederick Cramer ; and was transferred to the Austrian National Library in Vienna in 1738 with the rest of his library.

In March 2002 workers cataloguing archives of diarist John Evelyn at the British Library found a box containing a number of gunpowder samples, including a compressed bar with a note in Evelyn's handwriting stating that it had belonged to Guy Fawkes.

The critic Lewis Mumford found a copy of the poem in the New York Public Library in 1925 " with its pages uncut "— in other words, it had sat there unread for 50 years.

He also had a sister, Julie J. Boucher, the Associate Director of the Library Research Service at the Colorado State Library ( who died in a mountain-climbing accident on October 12, 1996 ).< ref >

The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U. S. Capitol.

In the 17th century, under the orders of Pope Paul V, the Secret Archives were separated from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access to them, and remained absolutely closed to outsiders until 1881, when Pope Leo XIII opened them to researchers, more than a thousand of whom now examine its documents each year.

The unseen and unheard Song of Roland had become a dim memory, until the antiquary Francisque Michel transcribed a worn copy in the Bodleian Library and put it into print in 1837 ; it was timely: French interest in the national epic revived among the Romantic generation.

In 1987, Joshua Sinai of the Library of Congress wrote that the Syrian Arab Army was the dominant military service, and as such controlled the senior-most posts in the armed forces, and had the most manpower, approximately 80 percent of the combined services.

In 1984, Softalk-PC magazine had a column, The Public Library, about such software.