May 2005
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Bioprospecting Historical Texts
A vast, untapped source of biomedical information may be sitting on the shelves of old libraries.
April 2005
Joseph Amato: On Foot - A History of Walking. NYU Press, 2004
large-scale and small-scale stories of what was man's first mode of travel—walking.
Mithridates
the bookish blog of Mithridates, King of Pontus
The Independent: Deciphering the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
by 1 otherIn the past 4 days alone, classicists have discovered writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, and others, which had been lost for millennia
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Book arson 'a Taleban-style' act
Officials of a prestigious library in India's north-eastern state of Manipur say nearly 145,000 books have been destroyed in an arson attack.
February 2005
Linda Hall Library History of Science Collection
digitised full texts of some rare history of science books
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