![]() ![]() Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.ĪWOL is syndicated to Facebook and Twitter. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.ĪWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. ![]() The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State UniversityĪWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. ![]() Was one of the most noted natural historians, geographers andĪWOL is a project of Charles E. The author Abu Yahya Zakariya ibn Muhammad Usually known as “The Cosmography” or “The Wonders of Creation,” wasĬompiled in the middle 1200s in what is now Iran or Iraq and isĬonsidered one of the most important natural history texts of the The Kitab Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa Gharaib al-Mawjudat, In over 50 years into English by James P. It eventually made its way to the Library of the New YorkĪcademy of Medicine, and it was recently translated for the first time Smith discovered the papyrus in Egypt in the 1860s, and his daughterĭonated the papyrus to the New-York Historical Society after hisĭeath. The examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous Textbook on trauma surgery, and describes anatomical observations and Papyrus, the world's oldest surviving surgical text, was written inĮgyptian hieratic script around the 17th century BCE, but probablyīased on material from a thousand years earlier. Simply click the COLLECTION button above and Now we offer Turning The Pages for the enjoyment of home Information on the books in the form of curators’ notes. They can zoom in on the pages for more detail, read or listen toĮxplanations of the text, and (in some cases) access additional Visitors may ‘touch and turn’ these pages in a highly realistic way. Sciences are offered at kiosks at the U.S. Using touchscreen technology and animation software, theĭigitized images of rare and beautiful historic books in the biomedical National Library of Medicine: Turning the Pages Online ![]()
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