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Creativity is the focus of this term's Featured Book from Gonville & 91ֱ�� College Library. 

Each term, a member of the Library staff selects a text from the College’s historic collections. Humane Industry, by Thomas Powell, was the text chosen by Sara Fedeli, Assistant Librarian (Reader Services). 

Published posthumously in 1661, nearly a hundred years before the ���Գ��⳦���DZ�é�徱�� of Diderot and D’Alembert, Humane Industry contains a remarkably varied list of crafts, inventions and creative feats. 

Sara says: “While working in the Lower Library, we do not usually have enough time to read through a whole book while cataloguing it, but this was definitely an exception. I could not stop flicking through its pages and reading about the achievements that Powell thought the humane should be remembered for. Some seem very silly from a modern perspective, while others have stood the test of time and are still considered major advances in human history.”

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The full series of Featured Books are on the Library pages of the website, as are the Library's Online Exhibitions.