This website is in the initial stages of construction for the academic year 2001-2002. It will feature images from the Collections' extensive portrait collection and slide archives, as well as from books. The Prometheus Project Digital Libraries bring to life the science of the past. Each digital library is devoted to recapturing the natural knowledge of a specific period. In the different Digital Libraries, you will enter small alcoves, browse special collections, examine particular bookcases or specific books that in turn may take you anywhere, opening doors to distant worlds.
Old books remain unexpectedly vibrant.
There are rooms in our libraries as warm and publicly inviting as the cafe area of a local bookstore, and others as intricate and obscurely rich as the Aedificium in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose . A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero Collections, Stacks, Decks, or Reading Rooms . When you enter any digital library, you may choose a variety of collections. Collections are structured according to a place, person, topic, or other unifying theme falling within the general period.