Not a Crematorium for Books, but a Receiving Tomb
metaLAB (at) Harvard 2014-02-05
Summary:
People verily recall the Library of Alexandria for its eventful burning, but how many wonder whether also engulfed were the 48,000 duplicate scrolls remotely stored in the Egyptian quarter’s Temple of Serapeum? Such offsite holding was also on the mind of 1902 Harvard’s President Eliot: “I am not proposing a crematorium for dead books, but […]
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