UK Royal Society rare books online
Posted: 18 Jan 2010, 22:35
Interesting piece linked from Slashdot today on the UK Royal Society's digitization of the book giving rise to the "Newton was inspired by a falling apple" story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8461591.stm
The article doesn't actually provide the link to the Royal Society, which is a shame because they're running a sort of neat interface for interacting with digitized material: http://royalsociety.org/Turning-the-Pages/
It's a commercial product, looks like it's in the "if you have to ask you can't afford it" category, but fun to play with/brainstorm around. The material they've archived is also pretty cool.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8461591.stm
The article doesn't actually provide the link to the Royal Society, which is a shame because they're running a sort of neat interface for interacting with digitized material: http://royalsociety.org/Turning-the-Pages/
It's a commercial product, looks like it's in the "if you have to ask you can't afford it" category, but fun to play with/brainstorm around. The material they've archived is also pretty cool.