As part of its mission to make the world’s books searchable and discoverable, Google has digitized over five hundred ancient Greek and Latin books. We present them here downloadable as zip files of images and plain text, and as links to Google Books web pages where you can read them online in full or download PDFs. This collection was selected by Prof. Greg Crane and Alison Babeu of Tufts University, and compiled by Will Brockman and Jon Orwant of Google.
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Read more about it over at Inside Google Books: “Google releases 500 scans of Ancient Greek and Latin texts for research” by Will Brockman, Software Engineer, June 25, 2010

• Aug 08, 2010 link notes tagged: technology  communication  book  ancient  Greek  Latin  classic  Google  Google Books  ressource  archive  Internet  online  digital 
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RedReplicant photostream on Flickr: “God the Father fishing for Leviathan”, 12th Century: Herrad of Landsberg’s Hortus deliciarum: 19th C reproduction drawings. In the Public Domain.

This is a very unusual depiction of God the Father using Christ, who is strung on a line of Old Testament prophets who predicted the messiah, as the hook to ensnare Satan or “Leviathan.” Herrad was a nun and scholar whose book interpreted the history of the world. It is more than likely that she illustrated the book in addition to authoring it.



• Jul 27, 2010 link notes tagged: art  communcation  vintage  engraving  illustration  ancient  Leviathan  God  Jesus  religion  monster  mythology  Satan  Evil  Hobbes  symbol 

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