Fold-up geometrical illustrations in the first English edition of Euclid’s ‘Elements of Geometry,’ published London, 1570. John Dee wrote a mathematical preface to the book. (© Royal College of ...

AI and advanced X-ray imaging have decoded the first sealed Herculaneum scroll, opening the door to reading hundreds of ...

You may have been late returning a library book, but how about 50 years late? A customer recently returned some books to the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a ...

"The Lost Library," by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, is the 2024 Kids Reading Across Rhode Island selection, the Rhode Island Center for the Book has announced. The New York Times bestseller is about ...

The Library of Lost Books project is trying to collect items looted from the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, known as the Hochschule. It was also home to one of the world’s largest and ...

Lost a library book? It doesn’t have to be a cat-tastrophe. At least not during the month of March in Worcester, Massachusetts. A library there will scratch certain fees off a book borrower’s record ...

A book borrowed from a UK library was found abandoned 330 miles away on the Paris Metro – before being diligently returned by a local. The travel guide, called ‘Top Ten Paris’, was checked out from ...

Deep within a particle accelerator, theoretical physicist Giorgio Angelotti is hard at work. He sets a black cylinder on a mount, bolts it down, then runs through some safety checks before retreating ...

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