Tag: digitisation
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Manuscript account of Newton’s apple made public
The manuscript is one of a number published online to mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, and can be accessed at www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages (from the Age)
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The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment
“The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone,” by Joseph Wright, 1771 Dan Edelstein, a Stanford French professor, has been exploring an aspect of the Age of Enlightenment that is less familiar to most, the so-called “dark side†of the enlightenment. He described the differentiating factors. “The prevailing understanding of the enlightenment is one in…
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New Resource: British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900
(This new resource from the a private company Gale-Cengage Learning looks promising; at least according to the populist blurb in the Telegraph via the Melbourne Age. Strange how the article fails to mention that it was a homophobic ‘scandal’ and fails to do justice to the true nature of Wild’s and Bosie’s relationship. There is…
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Press Release: Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation Join Together to Create DuraSpaceâ„¢ Organization
(This is indeed excellent news for the Open Repositories movement in terms of creating such a large player in the field and in terms of pooling the expertise of both organisation to help foster an open research commons online). (Fedora hats…much more interesting than Press Releases!) Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA — Fedora Commons and the…