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Darwin Manuscripts Project Launches New Two-Year Project

eloneil — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:11:13 +0000

The Darwin Manuscripts Project has been awarded a two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize 30,000 of Darwin's scientific manuscripts and letters. The "Foundations of Darwin's Science: A Digital Manuscripts Collection" will allow the Darwin Manuscripts Project to mount high resolution scans of the entire set of Darwin's scientific manuscripts that are directly concerned with evolutionary science. The collection includes all the creation of On the Origin of Species documents and all the documents of Darwin's post-Origin evolutionary science. Thus all Darwin's botany and all his work on human evolution are included. The Darwin Manuscripts Project already provides high quality edited transcriptions for many of these documents, so the scope of this effort is transformative to the historical significance, quality, and amount of Darwin manuscripts that will be publicly accessible. This digitization project will be carried out as a close collaboration between Cambridge University, the Darwin Correspondence Project, and the Darwin Manuscripts Project of the American Museum of Natural History.

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Celebrate Darwin's Birthday

eloneil — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:53:02 +0000

Celebrate Charles Darwin's birthday by exploring the beautiful digital collections of his scholarly work, written in his own hand.

Although Darwin was born more than 200 years ago on February 12th, 1809, his research on evolution by means of natural selection can still be traced through the more 16,000 pages scanned by the Darwin Manuscripts Project. The Darwin Manuscripts Project is publicly accessible as an online exhibit through the American Museum of Natural History. Browse the notebooks Darwin compiled during his journey upon The Beagle, and examine the high resolution digital images of his scientific research.

Browse the Biodiversity Heritage Library's online compendium of texts, the Charles Darwin's Library, which include scans of books from his personal library. Examine Darwin's hand-written notes in the margins of his personal collection, for a glimpse into Darwin's mind. A selection of the books are currently free for download on iTunes U, and scans can also be viewed via Flickr feed.

Skip the 200 year old birthday cake, roll up your sleeves, and celebrate Darwin's life by sifting through the manuscripts of a formidable scientific mind.

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