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  • Public Library of Science (PLoS)

    • 8 Jan 2012
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    Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit publisher, membership, and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
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  • The National Jukebox

    • 10 Nov 2011
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    The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

    Find out more about the National Jukebox project

    via loc.gov

     

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  • The Bird Book : Illustrating in Natural Colors ...

    • 12 Sep 2011
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  • Old Time Radio Researchers Library

    • 18 Aug 2011
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    "The OTRR Library has more than 85,000 individual episodes in more than 1,970 series for you to download. The OTRR Library is updated on a regular basis, with new series, new episodes, or better encodes."
    via otrrlibrary.org

     

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  • Albertus Seba's Amazing Cabinet of Natural Curiosities

    • 29 Jul 2011
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    Born in East-Frisia, Seba moved to Amsterdam as an apprentice and opened around 1700 a pharmacy near the harbour. Seba asked sailors and ship surgeons to bring exotic plants and animal products he could use for preparing drugs. Seba also started to collect snakes, birds, insects, shells and lizards in his house. From 1711 he delivered drugs to the Russian court in Saint Petersburg and sometimes accepted fresh ginger as payment. Seba promoted his collection with the head-physician to the tsar, Robert Arskine, and early 1716 Peter the Great bought the complete collection. Seven months later seventeen trunks arrived in Russia. With Seba as an intermediate, Frederik Ruysch, a famous botanist, again sold his collection to the tsar. A special building was designed, and from 1728 till 1830 both collections were exposed in the Kunstkammer. With the acquisition of the two collections, the Russian Academy of Sciences had two modern, very well-documented collections at its disposal.  

    Full Title:
    Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam :opus, cui, in hoc rerum genere, nullum par exstitit /ex toto terrarum orbe collegit, digessit, descripsit, et depingendum curavit Albertus Seba ...

    By : Seba, Albert,1665-1736.  
      

    view online at Botanicus, a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.  

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  • Small Farms Library

    • 8 Nov 2010
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    My Grandfather's Earthworm Farm
    by George Sheffield Oliver
    "The story of a self-contained farm of 160 acres, maintained in ever-increasing fertility over a period of more than sixty years, through the utilization of earthworms. A true story related to Thomas J. Barrett by Dr. George Sheffield Oliver."
    Just one of many online books about agriculture via journeytoforever.org

     

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  • The Geneva Bible

    • 24 Sep 2010
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    "Despite being virtually unknown today, the Geneva Bible is most revolutionary of all English Bibles. It was born out of persecution and takes its name from the initial city of publication. When Mary I, also known as "Bloody Mary," took the throne in 1553, English Bibles were made illegal and heavy persecution broke-out against Protestants and proponents of English Scripture. Hundreds fled England and many of these exiles settled in Geneva, Switzerland, where they produced a new English Biblethe Geneva Bible."

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  • 137 years of Popular Science

    • 7 Mar 2010
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  • Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress

    • 8 Dec 2009
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