Rare Book Room
{{Short description|Educational website}}
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Rare Book Room is an educational website for the repository of digitally scanned rare books made freely available to the public.
History
Starting around 1996 the California-based company Octavo began scanning rare and important books from libraries around the world. These scans were done at extremely high resolution using high-quality equipment, with some pages at over 200MB each. They were sold by Octavo as commercial products on CD-ROM.
In 2006 the "Rare Book Room" website was created which contains the complete collection in medium to medium-high resolution freely available to the public through a web browser or as a PDF file. Some high resolution versions are still being sold by Octavo through a separate website. As of 2007 over 400 books have been scanned.[http://www.rarebookroom.org/indexA.html List of All Titles]
File:UB Utrecht - Louis Renard - 1782 - Natuurlyke Historie - page 194.jpg
Collection
The repository includes books by:
- Euclid{{Cite web |title=Euclid, (author) - Elementa - 888 - Byzantine - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/eucmsd/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- Xenophon{{Cite web |title=" Xenophon, (author) - De republica Lacedaemoniorum - (αρχαία ελληνικἀ) " |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/xpnrep/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- Aristophanes{{Cite web |title=« Aristophanes - Comoediae novem - 1498 - Venice - Stanford Library (αρχαία ελληνικά) » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/aricom/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- Galileo Galilei,{{Cite web |title=« Sidereus Nuncius - 1610 - Venice - Stanford Library » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/galsd2/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}{{Cite web |title=« Sidereus Nuncius - 1610 - Venice - Warnock Library » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/galsid/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}{{Cite web |title=Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solar - 1613 - Rome - Warnock Library » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/galsol/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}{{Cite web |title=Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare - 1606 - Venice - Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Coll. Div. » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/galsol/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- Isaac Newton,{{Cite web |title=Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare - 1606 - Venice - Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Coll. Div. » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/nwtprt/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- Nicolaus Copernicus,{{Cite web |title=Copernicus, Nicolaus (author) - De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI - 1543 - Nuremberg - Warnock Library » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/coprev/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- Johannes Kepler,{{Cite web |title=Kepler, Johannes (Author) - Harmonices mvndi . . . - 1619 - Lincii Austria - Stanford Library » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/kephar/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}{{Cite web |title=« Kepler, Johannes (Author) - Astronomia Nova - 1609 - - Warnock Library » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/kepast/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- Albert Einstein,{{Cite web |title=« Einstein, Albert (author) - Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätsthe - 1916 - Leipzig - Warnock Library » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/eindie/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- Charles Darwin.{{Cite web |title=Darwin, Charles (author) - Zoology of the Beagle - 1839-43 - London - Warnock Library » |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/dwnzbg/index.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- William Shakespeare{{Cite web |title=Shakespeare's Quartos |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/sindex.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
- Benjamin Franklin{{Cite web |title=Rare Book Room Titles |url=http://www.rarebookroom.org/Franklin.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.rarebookroom.org}}
It includes most of the Shakespeare Quartos[http://www.rarebookroom.org/sindex.html Shakespeare Quartos] from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the University of Edinburgh Library, and the National Library of Scotland, as well as the First Folio from the Folger Library. It includes Library of Congress copies of Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin,[http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/frapoo/index.html Benjamin Franklin] and other rare editions: a Gutenberg Bible of 1455, William Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo ’s Sidereus Nuncius,[http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/galsd2/index.html Sidereus Nuncius] the first printing of the United States Bill of Rights, and Magna Carta.[http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/henmag/index.html Magna Carta]
References
External links
- [http://www.rarebookroom.org Official Website]
- [https://zlibrary.ac/ ZLibrary Website]
- [https://bookreviewsbyshalini.com/ Book Reviews]
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Category:American book websites
Category:Discipline-oriented digital libraries