[daycart1]

The New York Public Library has opened a new digital picture gallery, free to
the public. There are lots of interesting images, including a large gallery of
history of science and medicine.

See:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypld...700&col_id=197

 

[timo_nyc]

very cool

 

[TWIFOSP]

Very cool indeed.

It's awe inspiring to note the level of detail and functional art in some of the celestrial drawings. A work of art as a functional calendar or star map. All that without the aid of technology beyond a simple telescope. Done centuries ago.

I think it's about time a culture begins another Renaissance period.

 

[rsaavedra]

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Originally Posted by TWIFOSP I think it's about time a culture begins another Renaissance period.

Well said.

 

[sleepkyng]

schway!

that is a great site! especially the covers of songs of the 1800-1900s!


thanks DC!

 

[chadbang]

Wow. great images! I need to get to work downloading them for my collection of graphics. Thanks!

 

[eyeteeth]

Wow what a wonderful site!
This reminds me of when the internet first arrived in a common way and I went in search of the Louvre hoping they'd have a similar online data base but I was premature.

 

[scrypt]

Yes, I love that site. Why are New York's library web sites better than those of certain other states? It's not as if we have a monopoly on gifted researchers and programmers.

The NYPL's LEO Line is indispensible as well (though not for finding images).

Does anyone have links to fascinating image collections from libraries in places like Florida, Washington, California and Texas? If so, please post them. I've been thinking about becoming an NYC expatriate.

Here's another image repository you might enjoy (if you don't know it already):

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~st...r_library.html

It's a collection of various pertinent scanned manuscripts. Most of the images are available at 300 dpi. A search for Ernst Haeckel yields this:

http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~st...men/natur.html

I quite like this site, too:

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/

Type Voynich into the search engine field and watch what comes up.

 

[Bill Ward]

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Originally Posted by TWIFOSP I think it's about time a culture begins another Renaissance period.

Any nominees?

BW