17th Century Microscope Book Is Now Freely Readable

Yep, I don't understand why this is news, and why that book hasn't been available electronically for a long time.

Probably some jerk-publisher fraudulently claimed "coypright" on its print of it, and it took google several years until they noticed that indeed, the publisher did NOT have a copyright, and indeed, they COULD post it in its entirety. Which is, by the way, why around 80% of all public domain books google has digitized are not available in its entirety.

I wrote about it a few years ago http://seegr [discordia.ch]

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