http://www.rarebookroom.org/
I was able to take a virtual field trip to the Rare Book Room. I found this experience to be fascinating. Books that were written hundreds of years ago have been photographed and digitized and you can actually look inside and read them. There were several familiar works available by William Shakespeare. There were also several entries of The Poor Richard’s Almanac written by Benjamin Franklin in the 1700s. In addition I was able to check out brilliant exotic flowers and exotic aquatic life. There were pages on Galileo’s astronomy findings and Copernicus’s planetary system. It felt like history had come to life.
One response to “Rare Book Room”
I have never heard of the Rare Book Room. This was really cool to go back and see and to see how the books from hundreds of years ago have been digitalized for people to see. This was really neat! Thank you for sharing!