Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
| Created: | 2016-03-14 14:29 |
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| Institution: | Office of External Affairs and Communications |
| Description: | Some of the world’s most valuable books and manuscripts – texts which have altered the very fabric of our understanding – will go on display in Cambridge this week as Cambridge University Library celebrates its 600th birthday with a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of its greatest treasures. - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/lines-of-thought-discoveries-that-changed-the-world#sthash.DztowzCc.dpuf |
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Lines of Thought: Communicating Faith
Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary with an exhibition of priceless treasures communicating 4,000 years of human thought. To celebrate, we have made...
Collection: Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 31 May 2016
Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
Collection: Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 14 Mar 2016
Lines of Thought: From Darwin to DNA
The idea that characteristics could be passed from one generation to another was crucial to Charles Darwin’s theory of how new forms of life develop.
In the 1950s the structure...
Collection: Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 28 Jul 2016
Lines of Thought: Revolutions in communications
From 3000-year-old Chinese oracle bones to Penguin paperbacks of the 20th century, the collections at Cambridge University Library chart the technological revolutions that have...
Collection: Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 14 Mar 2016
Lines of Thought: Telling the Story of History
Shakespeare's 'First Folio', Dante's Divine Comedy, and fragments of Homer's Odyssey from the second century CE, are among the objects in our latest film celebrating Lines of...
Collection: Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 8 Nov 2016
Lines of Thought: Understanding Anatomy
A hand-coloured copy of Vesalius’ 1543 Epitome – one of the most influential works in western medicine – and the first written record of a dissection carried out in England are...
Collection: Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 8 Nov 2016
Lines of Thought: Understanding Gravity
Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary with an exhibition of priceless treasures communicating 4,000 years of human thought. To celebrate, we have made...
Collection: Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 29 Apr 2016