Rare Book Room
| Rare Book Room | |
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| Location | California, United States |
| Established | 2006 |
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| Website | www |
Rare Book Room is an educational website for the repository of digitally scanned rare books made freely available to the public.
History
[edit]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.[1]
Collection
[edit]The repository includes books by:
- Euclid[3]
- Xenophon[4]
- Aristophanes[5]
- Galileo Galilei,[6][7][8][9]
- Isaac Newton,[10]
- Nicolaus Copernicus,[11]
- Johannes Kepler,[12][13]
- Albert Einstein,[14]
- Charles Darwin.[15]
- William Shakespeare[16]
- Benjamin Franklin[17]
It includes most of the Shakespeare Quartos[18] 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,[19] and other rare editions: a Gutenberg Bible of 1455, William Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo ’s Sidereus Nuncius,[20] the first printing of the United States Bill of Rights, and Magna Carta.[21]
References
[edit]- ^ List of All Titles
- ^ "Louis Renard - Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires. 1719". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Euclid, (author) - Elementa - 888 - Byzantine - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "" Xenophon, (author) - De republica Lacedaemoniorum - (αρχαία ελληνικἀ) "". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "« Aristophanes - Comoediae novem - 1498 - Venice - Stanford Library (αρχαία ελληνικά) »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "« Sidereus Nuncius - 1610 - Venice - Stanford Library »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "« Sidereus Nuncius - 1610 - Venice - Warnock Library »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solar - 1613 - Rome - Warnock Library »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare - 1606 - Venice - Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Coll. Div. »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare - 1606 - Venice - Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Coll. Div. »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Copernicus, Nicolaus (author) - De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI - 1543 - Nuremberg - Warnock Library »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Kepler, Johannes (Author) - Harmonices mvndi . . . - 1619 - Lincii Austria - Stanford Library »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "« Kepler, Johannes (Author) - Astronomia Nova - 1609 - - Warnock Library »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "« Einstein, Albert (author) - Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätsthe - 1916 - Leipzig - Warnock Library »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Darwin, Charles (author) - Zoology of the Beagle - 1839-43 - London - Warnock Library »". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Shakespeare's Quartos". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ "Rare Book Room Titles". www.rarebookroom.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
- ^ Shakespeare Quartos
- ^ Benjamin Franklin
- ^ Sidereus Nuncius
- ^ Magna Carta