HMS Beagle sketchbooks added to Digital Library (The Darwin voyage)

[icymist]

Tiny sketchbooks that bring to life one of the most famous voyages in history have been digitised and made available online for the first time.

The intricate pencil drawings and watercolours in the sketchbooks were made by Conrad Martens, shipmate to Charles Darwin as they travelled around South America on the voyage of HMS Beagle.

Now, for the first time, all of Martens’ Beagle sketches have been made freely available online through Cambridge University Library’s Digital Library: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/ and can also be seen in the photo film above.

Martens made the drawings between the summer of 1833 and the early months of 1835. Cambridge University Library owns his two sketchbooks from this period and has made the above audio slideshow to celebrate their addition to the Digital Library.
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2015/01/hms-beagle-sketchbooks-added-digital-library/106439

[Stephen Retired]

1. This...

...is COOL!

[edhopper]

2. I love

Cool science posts. Thanx

[aikoaiko]

3. I'm not seeing the Martens' sketches at the links. Am I doing something wrong?

[icymist]

4. Watch the video.

Most of the sketches are there.

[aikoaiko]

5. Thanks, I was hoping to see the high res images so that I could zoom in as with manuscripts.

I like that feature of digital libraries and manuscripts.