Tuesday 21 June 2011

Darwin's library goes digital, annotations and all

Charles Darwin's personal library is being digitised and put online by Cambridge University. The digitisation includes all of Darwin's own annotations and notes in the margins, with 330 of the most heavily annotated books already posted online for universal access. Aside from making the works available to everyone everywhere, what's really impressive about the online library is that you can actually search for a keyword within Darwin's annotations, rather than trawl through hundreds of

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