Alexandria
The Royal Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and most important libraries in the ancient world. It was built in the 3rd century BCE and was a major center of research, literature, science, and scholarship until Roman conquered Egypt in 30 BCE. It was built by Ptolemy I Soter, the successor of Alexander the great, who founded the city of Alexandria. The library was attacked and burned several times, including Julius Caesar's 48 BCE attack, and most of its books, which were kept as papyrus scrolls, were destroyed.
1) Because at the time it housed ALL the literature from the ancient world. 2) It housed the ONLY copies of most of that literature. ---- When it was destroyed it was like losing all the national reference libraries round the world, all at once.
Octavia Butler wrote science fiction was very shy and had dyslexia. She became interested in reading science fiction at the public library.
Long before the internet people became educated...its called a 'library'. Books, research materials, even encylopedia's are shelved in 'libraries'.
How do you became professor in English Litrature?
How does Nicolas Copernicus became interested in science?
The four sites in the ARPA network were in UCLA, Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah's Computer Science Department. The four sites in the ARPA network were in UCLA, Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah's Computer Science Department.
They go to school for degrees in areas such as biology, physics, engineering, and geology. You can then try finding a job at a research facility, many science colleges have these on campus.
Alan Turing's research on determining whether a mathematical problem is solvable laid the foundation for computer science. Home computers first became available in the early 1980s.
The Arabs translated many Greek works in they found in the library of Alexandria when they conquered Egypt. They became interested in Greek philosophy and especially, science.
People became so dependent with science and technology.