Seriously, if you did, why did you not tell me? I am currently flipping out with the awesome that is this. This ability to read old anatomy books without spending any money or searching through used bookstores for hours (admittedly I will probably still do that, but free! online!).
I don’t think I’ve mentioned, but I really really really love old scientific books, the ones with the etchings and diagrams and the ridiculously long-winded writing and the font that has way too many serifs. I think this is best from the time period around the late 1800′s and early 1900′s and I would like to apologize if my grammar makes no sense because I am literally squeeing from excitement right now this is so brilliant.
So far I have found:
- This one is a bit new to be perfect, but it is a human anatomy book created with the intention of teaching people to draw humans.
- This is a collection of essays on the new types of bison being discovered in America, published in 1914 and complete with etchings of bison skeletons and I would just like to rub my face all over this book because it is history and etchings and scientific findings and beautiful.
- This site is a collection of…well, just look at the title of it: “Historical Anatomies on the Web”. I haven’t really investigated it yet, but it looks really freaking awesome.
- Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1870. There are a 1000 pages of this. Excuse me while I go die from awesome.
And now I shall go spend the last day of 2011 reading hundred-year-old anatomy books. This is quite possibly the best use of my time ever in existence.
Happy New Year, world.
