Notable Scholars
The following scholars are known to have studied, written, or performed their experiments at the Musaeum of Alexandria.
- Archimedes - father of engineering
- Aristarchus of Samos - proposed the first heliocentric system of the universe
- Callimachus - a noted poet, critic and scholar
- Erasistratus - physician and co-founder of the Academy of Medicine in Alexandria along with Herophilus
- Eratosthenes - proved the earth is round and accurately calculated its circumference
- Euclid - father of geometry
- Herophilus - notable physician and founder of the scientific method
- Hipparchus - founder of trigonometry
- Pappus - mathematician
- Hero - father of mechanics
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