Turning the Pages
May 28th, 2009 § 1 Comment
The National Library of Medicine hosts a great web project called Turning the Pages. Using a flash-based interface, they let you read old medical tomes like Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica and Ambroise Paré’s Oeuvres by literally turning the pages. The books are also filled with curator’s notes on the text and illustrations. This is as close as most of us will get to a hands-on experience. Excellent!
The illustration above is from page 559 of De Humani Corporis Fabrica.
Great site! I love the NLM. Thanks for the heads-up!