brewsterkahle ,
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Early stages in reconstructing Hernando Columbo's library

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1twwcPYNd9m3JvJ3HqfZcjNSLQag1Bn1EGP1I4EH_bvk/edit#heading=h.su1lcq4zgwqv

And got to check out a book from 1571: his book on his father Christopher from Biblioteca Angelina in Rome .... 1/5

brewsterkahle OP ,
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Biblioteca Angelina is a magic library, that will let you check out a book (to read at their desks). Maybe the first public library. And it still is.

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brewsterkahle OP ,
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Librarian finds a 1571 book by Hernando Columbo in the catalog from the 1500's (their access copy) in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome. (see the top entry)

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brewsterkahle OP ,
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"Me: Can I see that book from 1571?
Librarian: of course."

she looks looks it up on the shelf list, which looks centuries old in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Angelica

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brewsterkahle OP ,
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Librarian gets the book from the 3rd floor of Biblioteca Angelica in Rome. She goes up hidden stairs!

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brewsterkahle OP ,
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Librarian hands it to me to read (it is a year 1571 italian translation of the original spanish of Hernando Columbo) in Biblioteca Angelica in Rome.

Love libraries. Don't let megapublishers kill them by strangulation with licensing. Easy solution: .

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1twwcPYNd9m3JvJ3HqfZcjNSLQag1Bn1EGP1I4EH_bvk/edit#heading=h.su1lcq4zgwqv

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