Celestial Atlases - a motherlode of digital scans

[Putaendo Patrick]

Well, I never cease to be surprised by my own ignorance, but until last night I hadn't heard of the Linda Hall Library in Kansas, USA. Their motto is "Science, Engineering & Technology Information for the World", and they provide a Digital Collection with "Nearly a quarter million digitized images and texts offering researchers the opportunity to view books, maps, photographs, and manuscripts from the Library’s collections".

They have on-line and downloadable high-quality scans of 41 early books on astronomy (mostly Latin but a few in English). One is an original manuscript notebook by William Herschel:

http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/search/collection/astro_early

They also have a similar collection of 62 early Celestial Atlases from the 16th to early 19th centuries. Impressive!

http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/search/collection/astro_atlas

Go enjoy!

[andrew s]

Thanks, good spot. Regards Andrew

[jambouk]

That is an impressive resource of atlases! I'd never heard of it. Corking find

James

 

[Dave In Vermont]

Indeed! Nice catch there! Thank you.

Dave

[laudropb]

Very good find. I think I will spend a lot of time on this site. Thanks.

[reefshark]

Wow that's a great site - thankyou

[baggywrinkle]

Fabulous link, many thanks.