The Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth, is at the cutting edge of scientific progress. They present digital facsimiles of manuscripts of original works. I thought that this would be an interesting site to share with the Yocum Library community. Kathy Nye -Editor of The Yocum Library Blog.* 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.
• The Turning the Pages™ Library currently includes these manuscripts.
William Stukeley's Life of Newton.
Thomas Paine's iron bridge design.
The Constitutions of Carolina.
Anatomical drawings of the human lymphatic system
Richard Waller's watercolours of English flowers and grasses.
Henry James's sketches of fossils .
Specimens of calligraphy with natural history drawings.
Our first presentation, the Hooke Folio, has its own gallery.
* http://royalsociety.org/Turning-the-Pages/
