How far did it set us back?
1. Very little
2. Very little
All the futuristic space pyramid science used by ancient Black Kings.
>>487166
..10..15 years if we are being fairly generous I suppose?
A bunch of medical techniques that were state of the art then but holistic garbage that doesn't actually work in reality.
Though maybe you should try bathing in mercury just in case.
Also philosophy, more worthless garbage.
>>487166
1. The work of many ancient philosphers, playwrights and mathematicians was exclusively in that library. So A LOT was lost.
2. It set us back considerably. This, and the catholic church burning ancient scriptures put us back into stone age intellectually.
We were lucky some of it was preserved and rediscovered in the Renaissance.
>>487181
well, you're a pleb
>>487198
It's a reddit/Cracked.com meme
Historically speaking it was a totally insignificant event
>>487198
It's greatly romanticized like many ancient things we know little about, because everyone asks the same question you ask in the OP.
Obviously, without a catalog of the content of the library we cannot evaluate the real damage to the global knowledge of that age.
but the greatest damage coming from that event was its meaning: the development of a closed society where it was better to destroy knowledge if it wasn't in agreement with the dominating dogmas, doctrines, paradigms ... instead of knowing it with open mind.
>>487198
Because the library of Alexandria was a sign of how important Alexandria was.
We don't even know when the library actually shut down.
There was a series of fires, but none of them are "And that was the end of the library".
Alexandria, you need to remember, was probably THE most important City in the Mediterranean world, and the Library was a show of it's wealth, power, and prestige.
The disappearance of the Library was a sign of Alexandria and Egypt's decline into relative obscurity.
Imagine if, for example, the movie industry just shut down in Los Angeles and nobody even bothered noting when the last studio went bankrupt.
And think about what that would say about American cultural power and prestige. That's what the loss of the library of Alexandria represents.
Later, a bunch of European assholes who thought everything good in life came from the Greeks and Romans, because they were the only ones who were still educated in Greek and Roman, literally waxed poetic about it because they decided the loss symbolized everything that was wrong with THEIR world.
Not much. Copies of the works "lost" at Alexandria survived in Constantinople and Baghdad as late as the 13th century
>>487232
Look up Sophokles. Almost all of his work had a copy in Alexandria. Now only 7 out of 120 remain.
This is just an example, there are many worse ones, authors we will never ever hear about.
>>487231
Fantastic post.
>>487204
>the Catholic Church burning ancient scriptures put us back into stone age intellectually
>we were lucky some of it was preserved and rediscovered in the Renaissance
>being tricked by Renaissance propaganda
Weren't most of the contemporary accounts of Alexander's campaigns lost in that fire?
>>487166
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>>487204
>and the catholic church burning ancient scriptures put us back into stone age intellectually.
>people still spouting this debunked garbage
>We were lucky some of it was preserved and rediscovered in the Renaissance.
>>487166
wat is the meme of picrelated senapia
>>487166
>I keep my library in my garage
>>487231
/thread
>>487831
That number is 2 septillion, if anybody was wondering.
>>487166
It's kind of hard to know, but I imagine most of what we lost are historical records/cultural works.
>>487166
1. Quite a lot
2. Not that much
We can't be sure of what were the actual contents of the library, but a lot of it was poetry and theater, which, while culturally important, aren't the kind of practical knowledge whose loss can set mankind back.
Plus, since the Library would store all texts it could, it's reasonable to believe that a lot of them were not that good
Is it possible that it had the texts of Chrysippus?
We probably lost some works of fiction and poetry, but if you mean knowledge as in philosophy, math, psychics or even history, probably not a lot really.
>>487204
>>>/reddit/
>>487224
What. The Library was burned by Julius Caesar, and it had nothing to do with that.
>>487204
This has to be what bait on /his/ looks like.
>>487207
Only muslims think the burning is insignificant. Faggot eat some pork.
They had a working steam engine and blue prints. Quite a bit back.
>>487166
I remember going to epcot and learning that it wasn't that big of a deal cause the sandniggers stole a bunch of shit already so all we had to do was steal it back
>>487204
>We were lucky some of it was preserved
By Islamic scholars. Baghdad School of Wisdom.
>>487166
>How much knowledge was lost when the Library of Alexandira was destroyed?
A ton.
>How far did it set us back?
Lots. But not in the way you think.
It's not all that much about the books being burned, there were probably people with the knowledge which managed to recreated a lot of the texts from memory later.
It's about losing the institution.
Later most libraries and universities were Christian institutions where only children brainwashed from the youngest age to think like priests were allowed to study. After a donation by their parents of course.
This limited knowledge in Europe to a small zealous group and brought technological progress to a crawl in some historical instances a complete halt.
>>487204
>the catholic church burning ancient scriptures
>>493171
Changing the originals for your own purposes is almost as bad as burning them, historically speaking. I'm glad to have what we have as they are but it's still not a good thing.
>>493286
They had to shove god into everything. It was just how they thought.
One of the most shameful acts in history, in a long line of shameful actions. We can't even begin to comprehend the wealth of information that's been lost.Archimedes' work ,the origins of the egyptians
Man.....this subject piss' me off.
