Events Tagged: "knowledge"

Ashurbanipal becomes king - creates world's first library at Nineveh with 30,000 tablets

Library of Alexandria founded - Ptolemy I creates greatest library of ancient world, 400,000 scrolls

Gerard of Cremona translating in Toledo - will translate 87 works including Avicenna's Canon of Medicine

Illiterate Christina demonstrates perfect Latin knowledge and Scripture understanding at Looz - stays nine years with recluse Yvette

First paper mill in Europe established at Fabriano, Italy - cheaper than parchment

Gutenberg develops movable type printing press - revolution in knowledge transmission

Cosimo de' Medici founds Biblioteca Medicea (Medici Library) - first European library open to public

Montaigne's skeptical crisis - 'Que sçay-je?' (What do I know?) becomes motto - 'We have no communication with being' - Pyrrhonian skepticism revived

Fama Fraternitatis published in Kassel - Announces Brotherhood of Rosy Cross - Claims perfect knowledge of nature - 'Europe is pregnant and will bring forth a strong child'

Francis Bacon's 'Novum Organum' - 'Knowledge is power' - 'We must torture nature's secrets from her' - Rejects final causes (purpose)

Wikipedia launches using mathematical ranking and search algorithms