[Northkeep] TEACHERS BEWARE ....

[ravenrux at cox.net]

No, sometime in the 3rd Century the Christians killed the librarian (Her name was Hypatia).  Then in the 5th Century (I believe) the Moslems burned all of the books in the library because the local caliph said "if they repeat what is in the Quran, then they are redundant, if they don't, they are heresy." 

Masamune the enemy of Censorship




From: DulcetKitten at aol.com
Date: 2004/01/08 Thu PM 04:35:51 EST
To: northkeep at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Northkeep] TEACHERS BEWARE ....

In a message dated 1/8/2004 12:18:59 PM Central Standard Time, 
ravenrux at cox.net writes:
Al-gebra does derive from an Arabic word.  I find it ironic that a goodly 
amount of mathematics was lost to the West when the Library at Alexandria was 
burned and later reintroduced by Islamics--since it was the Islamics that burned 
it in the first place.

Masamune no Yahaki
.
I was under the impression that the Library at Alexandria burned down after 
Caesar had set fire to all of Ptolemy's fleet in the Alexandrian harbor and it 
spread to the city.  Perhaps I heard it wrong.
-Kasha

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