Darwin goes digital: Rare drafts go online

by thecodepounder on November 23, 2009 at 6:04pm

The Darwin Manuscripts Project has digitized not only drafts of the seminal “On the Origin of Species”, but also notebooks and scientific writings from the time Darwin spent on the HMS Beagle, among other writings.

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