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theartofgooglebooks:

“By capturing a folded page in the image above, Google unintentionally draws focus towards the material, tactile nature of print and the literary consequences of traversing text through this medium. The visual effect of planets sliced in half is also bizarrely captivating.”
Submitted by Chris Hawley, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 240 of The New American Grammar of the Elements of Astronomy by James Ryan (1827). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 6, 2007.

theartofgooglebooks:

“By capturing a folded page in the image above, Google unintentionally draws focus towards the material, tactile nature of print and the literary consequences of traversing text through this medium. The visual effect of planets sliced in half is also bizarrely captivating.”

Submitted by Chris Hawley, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.

From p. 240 of The New American Grammar of the Elements of Astronomy by James Ryan (1827). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 6, 2007.


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