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Nature 439, 638-639 (9 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439638a; Published online 8 February 2006
Dealer unearths Hooke's Royal Society notes
Jim Giles
The battered folio of notes looks like many others that have landed on the desk of Felix Pryor, manuscript expert at Bonhams auction house in London. But when he leafed through the pages of intricate seventeenth-century hand-writing, Pryor quickly realized he was looking at the most exciting scientific documents he had ever handled: a set of original minutes and commentary that detail the birth of modern science.
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