[pete anderson]

I have read other accounts that state that the bulk of the world's mathematic and scientific information was lost in Alexandria Fire and much had to be rediscovered in later centuries.

I have always wondered how much more scientific, medical and technological information the world would now posses if it had not been for the Alexandria Fire.

Without Question the Fire was one of the World's greatest tragedies.

[KC_for_Freedom]

I have always wondered how much more scientific, medical and technological information the world would now posses if it had not been for the Alexandria Fire.

Interesting conjecture, what did survive was enough to develop the calculas (at least integral calculas) but the Arabs who translated it did not understand what they had. It took until the enlightenment and Issac Newton to realize and "rediscover" it. But I am astonisned that othes before him did not realize from the proofs of Archimedes what was already done.