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I have been looking through the first set of Board of Longitude
documents that have recently gone online at the Cambridge Digital
Library site.

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/longitude

Some hints for the new visitor:

The controls to hide/show the table of contents panel do not work for me
with IE 8.0. I can make the panel disappear, but it will not come back.
Possibly this is simply an issue with my settings. In Firefox the
controls work OK. That's my usual browser, and anyway the "toggle full
screen" button in the bottom right corner of the image panel works in
either browser, and gives the functionality I prefer.

Clicking a link in the table of contents in the right hand panel takes
you to the correct image, but also makes the table of contents scroll to
the top, so you lose your place. The webmasters are aware of this problem.

There is no obvious way to create an URL to a specific document page in
the viewer unless you look in Help. I didn't. The URL in the browser's
address bar will only go to the beginning of the document. What you need
to do is add a slash and page number to that URL by hand. For example,

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-RGO-00014-00068/29

Speaking of that page, I have figured out that "T.K." means time keeper,
and the + symbol with four dots is the symbol for a star.

Note the small image of a ruler in cm and inches at the top of each
image. This allows you to determine the actual page size.

   

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