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Russ Gonnering

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Russ S. Gonnering is Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Wisconsin.




The destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria

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As a young lad, I was fascinated by stories of the Great Library of Alexandria and the Mouseion (House of the Muses), its associated...

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