Today I will talk about the Library of Alexandria. Let's start with its location, the city of Alexandria, where the library is located, is a harbor city. Talk about its scale, the books in it are all made of papyrus and parchment, one said a total of 500,000 volumes, the other said a total of 700,000 volumes, let's talk about it later according to 500,000 volumes, Ranger is thick.
The first question, since it is a harbor city, that is, guarding the seaside, no one will call Ulabaatar a harbor city, right? Since it is at the seaside, the tide is inevitable. As we all know, the enemy of the preservation of books and archives is dampness, mildew and insect moths, from bamboo to paper. And with the characteristics of parchment and papyrus, in the face of dampness is basically to see the light of death, even if the use of modern technology to preserve the Library of Alexandria such a large-scale book of this material is also a considerable scale of the project, and the Library of Alexandria can actually keep these books for two or three hundred years, who can say, what high technology was used by the Egyptian people at that time to solve this problem?
The second question, 500,000 volumes of books, do you say more papyrus or more parchment? If there is a lot of papyrus, then these authors are living near the Nile Valley, but the so-called sages who are now well-known and shiny are all mixed in Greece, and I have not heard of anyone from Egypt. If it is more parchment, this is reliable, look at what Aristotle, Plato, etc., the small hands of youth are all huge productions, huh! It's all written on parchment. You don't mention the possibility of papyrus, if you create scale according to these "sages", if you use papyrus, his book has just reached the end, and the first few pieces of paper will become indistinct. Without him, because Greece is by the sea. The use of parchment is the only option, so the question is where to get so many sheep to cut the skin, so that these "sages" and "masters" can release themselves? Don't forget, you swear that Greece is supported by commercial civilization, and since they are all civilized, there will always be no shortage of contracts, contracts, ledgers, etc., and these are also paper, and guess how big this amount will be?
The third question is, among so many books, since the niche books of astronomy, philosophy, religion, and poetry have been handed down, why have the books on agriculture, animal husbandry, shipbuilding, navigation, and commercial management not been handed down? Don't tell me that this book is not, except for agriculture, although we all have them in China, we can say that there are none, because we never brag about these things. And these books are the foundation of your so-called Western civilization, oh, without a link oh!!!
