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Posted: May 08 2009 at 2:16pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
A great article from the Wall Street Journal today,
The Next Age of Discovery by Alexander Alter, which talks about the process and collections libraries, museums, and universities are scanning and preserving digitally, and then sharing them online.

Be sure to check out the section, Clicking On The Past. Some of the online treasures:

  • Mozart's composition books dating from 1784 to 1791

  • Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks

  • Jane Austen's "History of England," hand-written by Austen in 1791 when she was 15

  • The contents of Lincoln's pockets on the night he was assassinated

  • Four Walt Whitman notebooks, with writings from 1842 to 1937

  • Former slaves' narratives

  • Oracle Bone, about 1200 B.C.

  • Albert Einstein's application for citizenship, dated 1936

  • Christopher Columbus's diary from 1493

  • The Archimedes Palimpsest

  • The Oxyrhynchus Papyri

  • Codex Sinaiticus



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Posted: May 08 2009 at 5:52pm | IP Logged Quote hylabrook1
Wow,Jenn! I know where I'll be next time I play on the computer! Thanks!

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