Age 16: Some friend gets him library copy of book titled A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics and was a collection of 5000 theorems.
The library obtained its copy when former trustee John Kennedy donated it along with other items he purchased from Thomas Addis Emmet.
The company proposed to digitize the entire collection free of charge, and give the library an electronic copy of each of its books.
HarperCollins sells e-books to libraries at prices comparable to those it charges consumers, but each e-book can only be lent out 26 times until the library has to buy another copy.
In the front of my library shelf is a strategically placed copy of a very valuable issue of Vanity Fair.
Amaranth Cline, 70, in treatment for bile-duct cancer at Mount Sinai, says she learned of Image Share from the medical library there when she requested a copy of her scans.
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In the summer of 1983, Mr Dodge, who was once arrested for cutting down telephone poles, was reading in a Maine library when he found an 1825 copy of the Constitution.
As well as the Captain Scott letter, held at the Polar Museum, and Darwin's animal specimens at the Museum of Zoology, other items include Isaac Newton's own copy of Principia Mathematica, at Cambridge University Library.
According to his autobiographical letter Confessio, thought to have been written around 450 AD and first published in the early 9th Century (the Book of Amagh, containing the earliest copy believed to exist, is in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin), an angel appeared in a dream urging him to flee from his enslavement.
Below are the full translations of the relevant clauses from the 1215 copy of the Magna Carta held at the British Library.
For the first time printers and booksellers were required to deposit a copy of each of their publications in the King's library.
The copy of Fisher's book which The Economist borrowed from the London Library was last lent out in 1978.
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Should you already own a copy for another platform, it'll show up in your Steam library as available for download like any other crossplatform game.
One official, who declined to be quoted, said all subscribers received their copy of the June issue but confirmed that extra copies were not distributed at the upcoming American Library Association, as was the custom.
Researchers, students and other users of the Library will be able to view historical items from anywhere in the world as well as copy, share and manipulate text for non-commercial purposes.
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So when I recently went to buy my first copy of The Dandy in decades - research for a story on a new exhibition at the National Library of Scotland - I was slightly thrown by its look.
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