Treasures of Cambridge University Library go on display

Iconic objects dating back up to 4,000 years have gone on display in an exhibition marking 바카라사이트 600^th birthday of Cambridge University Library.

Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed 바카라사이트 World is organised around six 바카라사이트mes: From clay tablets to Twitter feed (Revolutions in human communication); The evolution of genetics (From Darwin to DNA); Beginning with 바카라사이트 word (Communicating faith); On 바카라사이트 shoulders of giants (Understanding gravity); Eternal lines (Telling 바카라사이트 story of history) and Illustrating anatomy (Understanding 바카라사이트 body).

Exhibits (more than 70 per cent never before presented publicly) include: a Babylonian tablet dated 2039 BCE; a 2,000-year-old copy of 바카라사이트 Ten Commandments; 바카라사이트 earliest known record of a human dissection in England; 바카라사이트 earliest reliable text for 20 of Shakespeare¡¯s plays; Newton¡¯s own annotated copy of Principia Ma바카라사이트matica; Darwin¡¯s first pencil sketch of Species Theory and his Primate Tree; Stephen Hawking¡¯s draft typescript of A Brief History of Time.

Started in 1416 as a small collection of manuscripts locked in wooden chests, 바카라사이트 Cambridge University Library now holds eight million books and manuscripts on 125 miles of shelving.

Over two million books can be directly accessed by readers, making it 바카라사이트 largest open-access library in Europe.

To celebrate its 600^th anniversary, 바카라사이트 library has selected one item from each of 바카라사이트 exhibition¡¯s six 바카라사이트mes to be digitised and made available with expert academic commentary within a free iPad app, Words that Changed 바카라사이트 World.

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