[IP] more on Hooke's journal found

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Tom Yates <reply@teaparty.net>
Date: March 30, 2006 7:44:50 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Hooke's journal found

Prof. Farber:

possibly for IP?

> LONDON - A manuscript charting the birth of modern science, lost  
> for more than 200 years, goes on sale on Tuesday with a price tag  
> in excess of one million pounds.

the guardian reports the papers have been saved for the nation:
'With minutes to spare at Bonhams auctioneers in central London, the  
Royal Society agreed an 11th-hour deal to buy the papers for "about  
£1m"'

full article at http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/ 
0,,1741992,00.html .


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