Worlds First University. Timbuktu, located in what is now the country of Mali, was begun around 1100BC as a trading post at the crossroads of three major trade routes. It developed into a city of great wealth, learning and culture, featuring three universities and a library that rivaled the one in Alexandria. Resources for learning the history of Timbuktu include historic documents and manuscripts from the ancient library. Timbuktus literary output was enormous, and included works covering the history of Africa and southern Europe, religion, mathematics, medicine and law. There were manuscripts detailing the movement of the stars, possible cures for malaria and remedies for menstrual pain. Their astronomers didnt follow the European leap to a sun-centered solar system, but they sprang far ahead in the mathematics of calendar writing -- far ahead in trigonometry.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:40:42 +0000
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