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... Ptolemy would work . He would have an aristocracy of intellect ; he would gather round him the wise men of the world ( glad enough most of them to leave that miserable Greece , where every man's life was in his hand from hour to hour ) ...
... Ptolemy would work . He would have an aristocracy of intellect ; he would gather round him the wise men of the world ( glad enough most of them to leave that miserable Greece , where every man's life was in his hand from hour to hour ) ...
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... Ptolemy ! The charming man became his bosom friend and fellow , even revised the laws of his kingdom , and fired him , if report says true , with a mighty thought - no less a one than the great public Library of Alexandria ; the first ...
... Ptolemy ! The charming man became his bosom friend and fellow , even revised the laws of his kingdom , and fired him , if report says true , with a mighty thought - no less a one than the great public Library of Alexandria ; the first ...
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... Ptolemy has to cut off his rival's sup- plies by prohibiting the exportation of papyrus ; and the Pergamenian books are henceforth tran- scribed on parchment , parchemin , Pergamene , which thus has its name to this day , from Perga ...
... Ptolemy has to cut off his rival's sup- plies by prohibiting the exportation of papyrus ; and the Pergamenian books are henceforth tran- scribed on parchment , parchemin , Pergamene , which thus has its name to this day , from Perga ...
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... Ptolemy surnamed him Chronos , the Slow . Poor Diodorus went home , took pen and ink , wrote a treatise on the awful nothing , and died in despair , leaving five " dialectical daughters " behind him , to be thorns in the sides of some ...
... Ptolemy surnamed him Chronos , the Slow . Poor Diodorus went home , took pen and ink , wrote a treatise on the awful nothing , and died in despair , leaving five " dialectical daughters " behind him , to be thorns in the sides of some ...
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... He had before suggested , as is supposed , to Ptolemy Euergetes , to make him the two great copper armillæ , or circles for determining the equinox , which stood for centuries in " that which 26 THE MEASUREMENT OF THE EARTH . is called the.
... He had before suggested , as is supposed , to Ptolemy Euergetes , to make him the two great copper armillæ , or circles for determining the equinox , which stood for centuries in " that which 26 THE MEASUREMENT OF THE EARTH . is called the.
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