Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Rare Books
I really enjoyed looking at the rare books. To know that books from that long ago are still in pretty good shape (some better than our books that are made now) and they used them much more than we do now. I mostly enjoyed the anatomical book. To see how detailed that they could get even though they don't have all of the technology that we do now. It was really interesting to see that each "person" (skeleton/dissected body) was posed in a very interesting way to act as if they were still alive. I also really enjoyed looking at that really small book. Compared to some of the more massive books that we looked at it was so tiny. I could still make out the print, but it was on the boarder line of being able to read. Overall I really liked seeing all the different books that most people don't even read anymore let alone purchase.
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The books were very interesting and it was cool to see some that were related to things that we have studied in this course and in other courses. One example was a book written by Louis d'Orleans about the Parlements of Paris which we learned about in Professor Stanley's French Revolution course last semester.
ReplyDeleteI was really happy that the guy was so enthusiastic about his work. I got to read a book about Archimedes that was centuries old.
ReplyDeleteI loved the old anatomy book! Surprisingly accurate for the time too. I wish I could read them though.
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