The British Library: A Treasure House of Knowledge
Автор:
Philip Howard, 112 стр., издатель:
"Scala Publishers, British Library", ISBN:
978-1-85759-375-4
Welcome to the greatest library in the world. The British Library's collections comprise 150 million items, and rising. Its treasures span 30 centuries, and come from almost every country and language since man stopped building the Tower of Babel. They include many of the most celebrated documents and publications in existence, and countless more that are remarkable but unfamiliar: Magna Carta, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Diamond Sutra and the Codex Sinaiticus; the oldest Buddhist texts, the earliest printed book, the largest atlas, and the first illustrated English news pamphlet; Gutenberg's 42-line Bible, Shakespeare's First Folio, Mozart's catalogue of his own works, and one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks; the original manuscripts for Beowulf, Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Persuasion and Sherlock Holmes; the archives of the British empire, secrets of the Cold War, and historic documents relating to the independence of India, Egypt, Indonesia, and many more countries...
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