by Talking Humanities | Jun 30, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, scrolls through the digital library of Augustus De Morgan to see what books the mathematician and mathematical historian annotated, when and how. If a company wanted to produce a...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 18, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Mathematician, physicist, inventor, religious controversialist, literary author: in a brief life terminated by a lingering, debilitating illness, Blaise Pascal (1623–62) was nothing if not multi-talented. As the curator of rare books at Senate House Library, I think...
