Turning the Pages Online

The U.S. National Library of Medicine has created an interactive site for digitized images of rare and beautiful historic books in the biomedical sciences. Visitors may Â?touch and turnÂ? these pages in a highly realistic way. They can zoom in on the pages for more detail, read or listen to explanations of the text, and (in some cases) access additional information on the books in the form of curatorsÂ? notes.

The first three books in the collection are:
Conrad GesnerÂ?s Historiae Animalium (Studies on Animals), v.1 1551
Ambroise Paré�s Oeuvres, 1585
Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), 1543