"Aristotle...is the first man [Greek], so far as I know, to have collected books."
— Aristotle

January 1, 1970

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Strabo, Geography, 13.1.54. quoted in C. K. Raju, Cultural Foundations of Mathematics, Vol. 10, Pt. 4: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe (India: Pearson Longman, 2007)