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Started by stellinacadente, November 20, 2008, 05:20:42 AM

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stellinacadente

November 20, 2008, 05:20:42 AM
Pardon my excitement, but I was just browsing one of the Italian newspapers I read online and this news just made me jump on my couch with joy!

From tomorrow on the most precious and rare books withheld in the collections of museums and libraries across the old continet will be available online at www.europeana.eu !!!!

Can you imagine??? The British library's treasures online ... not having to fly to London??? (well I love London though...)

JOY TO THE WORLD...ALL AROUND THE WORLD.... JOY TO THE FISHES IN THE DEEP BLUE SEE... JOY TO YOU AND ME!
:fireworks_fire: :stars:
"Pressure... changes everything pressure. Some people you squeeze them, they focus... others fall..."

Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate

Pachyderm

#1
November 20, 2008, 09:26:56 AM
I think I just may have found my excuse for never working again....


Thank you Stelli.  :-*
Imus ad magum Ozi videndum, magum Ozi mirum mirissimum....

stellinacadente

#2
November 20, 2008, 04:17:57 PM
No problem! I am glad someone other than me is going to sink into this and might never come out :)
"Pressure... changes everything pressure. Some people you squeeze them, they focus... others fall..."

Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate

Darlica

#3
November 20, 2008, 04:56:48 PM
Ooooooh! Shiny!

Arrgh! :hitPC: the connection here is too crappy!

But I know what I'm going to dive into when I'm back home. :)

Thank you Stelli!
"Kafka was a social realist" -Lindorm out of context

"You think education is expensive, try ignorance" -Anonymous

Griffin NoName

#4
November 20, 2008, 05:27:10 PM

WOW!  Bonanza!!!

(((I've been half watching Cambridge University Library (copyright library) project to get their rare books on-line. I thought it had stalled. Must go and see again.))))

This is fantastic.
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pieces o nine

#5
November 20, 2008, 06:04:04 PM
Great link!


(Although the juxtaposition of images of  "Albert Einstein,"  "Le cinéma porno,"  and  "The Gutenberg Bible"  made me smile.)
"If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
--Marquise de Sevigne, February 11, 1677

beagle

#6
November 20, 2008, 07:31:30 PM
Don't think you should have let on about the Gutenberg Bible, Pieces. The site seems completely overloaded now.
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pieces o nine

#7
November 20, 2008, 11:45:06 PM
Sorry! What was I thinking?     ;)
"If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
--Marquise de Sevigne, February 11, 1677

beagle

#8
November 21, 2008, 09:15:40 PM
Where was that previous repository of European "Culture" that was popular when the internet was new and shiny back in the 90s? Technical University of Eindhoven if I remember correctly.
The angels have the phone box

stellinacadente

#9
May 27, 2009, 04:29:46 AM
Europena.com Beta version is back and fantastic...
Opsa, there are medical herbs books compiled in Nortern England during the VIII C.E.!!!!!

But if you really want to get your jaws to drop... check out the Virtual Books session of the British Library online at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html#

I have been reading the Da Vinci Arundel Codex (Full Version!!!!!!) or attempting too LOL (crazy medieval guy writing backwards!) for the past 20 minutes!!!!
"Pressure... changes everything pressure. Some people you squeeze them, they focus... others fall..."

Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate

Bruder Cuzzen

#10
May 28, 2009, 06:04:31 PM
WOW !
This is fabulous news !

Ummm , are the banned books in the Vatican library available as well ?

beagle

#11
May 28, 2009, 08:10:00 PM
Quote from: stellinacadente on May 27, 2009, 04:29:46 AM
But if you really want to get your jaws to drop... check out the Virtual Books session of the British Library online at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html#

That's a really nice xbap application (anorak, ici on parle). Been looking at the Gillray cartoons.
The angels have the phone box

Griffin NoName

#12
May 29, 2009, 01:00:07 PM

Beagle plays in the sandbox again ;)

I just tried Leonardo, waited for ever, gave up.
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stellinacadente

#13
June 02, 2009, 04:23:48 AM
Quote from: Bruder Cuzzen on May 28, 2009, 06:04:31 PM
WOW !
This is fabulous news !

Ummm , are the banned books in the Vatican library available as well ?

I am afraid fro those we will have to wait until the Illuminati succeed in their annihilation plot LOL
"Pressure... changes everything pressure. Some people you squeeze them, they focus... others fall..."

Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate

pieces o nine

#14
June 04, 2009, 07:25:01 AM
Oi finks as we cood send sumwun -- bein' a monastery an awl -- as arrrgh  reper  repreev  sample person wot we've sent. They cood then smuggil thee desyred bookes owt wiv thee squidlings.
"If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
--Marquise de Sevigne, February 11, 1677

Bluenose

#15
June 04, 2009, 08:05:55 AM
Quote from: pieces o nine on June 04, 2009, 07:25:01 AM
Oi finks as we cood send sumwun -- bein' a monastery an awl -- as arrrgh  reper  repreev  sample person wot we've sent. They cood then smuggil thee desyred bookes owt wiv thee squidlings.

Arrrggghhh! Ye be roight, Peases! Oi hear wot the Vaticun doan have no Navy, so wot saye we jest gather tergether a small fleet and sail inter their 'arbour an then send a shore party in ter grab all thee bookes?
Myers Briggs personality type: ENTP -  "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population.

pieces o nine

#16
June 05, 2009, 06:48:45 AM
A right capital idea, chum!


Hex kyooze me!
That be a foine sujestshun, Blue. Let's get thee fleete togevver an go raydin on thee vatty kin fer trezhure buried in them booke vaults.

Nef Yoo kin run hinterfearints in thee gifte shoppe as a destrukshun destrakshun.
"If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
--Marquise de Sevigne, February 11, 1677

Griffin NoName

#17
June 05, 2009, 03:08:27 PM

Oi shall com along wiv me Flip Video ter film it fer YouTube ;) ;) ;)
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