More than just words – 30,000 images on E-Pics Rare Books
The E-Pics platform provides comprehensive online holdings of digitised images. Discover a wide range of images in the digitised old books collection of the ETH Library.
Are you looking for photographic records of the external page first spectacular balloon flight over the Alps? Are you interested in illustrated documents on external page Otto von Guericke’s proof of the force of vacuum? Or how about detailed engravings of the railway carriages of the external page Liverpool and Manchester Railway?
More than 30,000 digitised images from the ETH Library’s Rare Books Collection have been available online on the
The Rare Books Collection of the ETH Library includes more than 75,000 volumes of books and periodicals that were published between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The collection mostly comprises texts on the subjects of astronomy and mathematics.