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    Welcome to our gallery of Turning the Pages™ presentations - high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible. We hope that these will give you a flavour of the fascinating and diverse range of material held within our collections. We will be adding more items soon.

    Launch Turning the Pages™ 2.0

    • Full 3D version - high end, full functionality. (Need help?)
    • Silverlight version - if you cannot use the 3D version, try this one. (Need help?)
    • Accessible version - if you're still having difficulty, try this version. (Need help?)

    The Turning the Pages™ Library currently includes these manuscripts.

    William Stukeley's Life of Newton

    Thomas Paine's iron bridge design

    Woolsthorpe Paine letter

    The Constitutions of Carolina

    Anatomical drawings of the human lymphatic system

    The fundamental constitutions of Carolina Foot
    Richard Waller's watercolours of English flowers and grasses

    Henry James's sketches of fossils

    Waller drawing
    Phacops

    Specimens of calligraphy with natural history drawings


    Calligraphy  

    hooke_folio

    Our first presentation, the Hooke Folio, has its own gallery.

    • Launch the Hooke Folio presentation. (Need help?)
    • View the full transcript at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters

     

    Acknowledgements

    Turning the Pages™ 2.0 technology by Armadillo Systems.

    This project was made possible with generous support from:
    The John S. Cohen Foundation
    Wellcome Trust 
    The British Library

    Related links

    • British Library Turning the Pages™ gallery
    • Wellcome Library Turning the Pages™ gallery

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