Coming into the Cambridge University Library entrance hall visitors encounter three objects: a wall-mounted cast of 565 million-year-old sea-creature fossils, a plastinated pitcher plant, using […]
Continue reading »The Library’s exhibition “Tall Tales: Secrets of the Tower” highlights some of the books in our holdings that you might not necessarily expect to find […]
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A guest post by Daniel Belteki, University of Kent On 29 June 2018, Cambridge University Library will host a workshop on the life and […]
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A guest blog post by Daniel Belteki, University of Kent Sir George Biddell Airy was the Astronomer Royal and the director of the Royal Observatory […]
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The latest addition to the Cambridge Digital Library is the Album amicorum of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). The Album amicorum – literally ‘book of friends’ – […]
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You may have seen here that in May this year I was awarded a Research Bursary from the Wellcome Trust. The award means that I am […]
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Four months after it started work in August 1970, the the University’s Computer Syndicate submitted a report (published in Cambridge University Reporter No.4735, Vol. CI, […]
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Cambridge Science Festival started yesterday and over the next two weeks, the city will be even more than usually full of inventions, discoveries and experiments. […]
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Guest post by Boris Jardine. Slide rules dominated the practice of mathematics from their invention in reign of King Charles I to their sudden, electronic-calculator […]
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