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 E-Pics platform since the beginning of January 2021, as further impressive images from our old books collection have been added to the image catalogue.
The digital copies here are published under a Public Domain licence. You can use them freely for academic, personal, non-commercial and commercial purposes and download them free of charge.
Stay tuned, because more digitised images are being added to E-Pics every day, and additional images are being indexed systematically.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Rare Books team: rara@library.ethz.ch.
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.