ALA - Aristarchus , Eratosthenes , Hipparchus , Callimachus , Euclid , Herophylus , Manetho ,      Zenodotus , Diophantes , Apollonius of Perga , Hero , Archimedes ...to name but a few... ADVANTAGE: ANCIENT LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA     WINNER: THE ANCIENT LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA Okay, okay, so we don't