Thursday, 29 May 2014
Babar Maquette
The Morgan library also have a digital facsimile of a unique maquette created by Jean de Brunhoff in 1930/31 as a first draft of the first book in the Babar series: Histoire de Babar.
The maquette (scale model or rough draft) is a small (20.5 x 15.5 cm) handmade booklet incorporating both text and illustrations.
The maquette (scale model or rough draft) is a small (20.5 x 15.5 cm) handmade booklet incorporating both text and illustrations.
Image Copyright Morgan Library - HERE.
Rembrandt Etchings online
The Morgan Library in New York has just put its collection of 500 Rembrandt etchings online - HERE.
Below - one of the many self-portraits in the collection.
Image Copyright The Morgan Library
Below - one of the many self-portraits in the collection.
Image Copyright The Morgan Library
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Shrimps
Rachel Carson is famed as the author of Silent Spring (1962) - a call to action about conservation and environment.
Earlier though she had a career as a marine biologist with the US Bureaus of Fisheries. One of her technical monographs,Fish and Shellfish of the South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (1944) is available here.
Monday, 26 May 2014
The Secret History of Hypertext
A great piece in the Atlantic on the Secret History of Hypertext HERE. It includes a good write up on someone I had never heard of before, the Belgian Paul Otlet - the father of information science.
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Everyone is totally just winging it
From Oliver Burkeman's blog in the Guardian today, a grand truth about human behaviour, dressed up in a semi-joking post:
Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time.
Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time.
A Golden Plover - by Thomas Bewick from HERE
Monday, 19 May 2014
Compound Interest
Here is a blog offering a distinctively different view on chemistry.
Image Copyright Compound Interest
Image Copyright Compound Interest
Monday, 12 May 2014
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