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Eleventh-hour deal keeps scientific treasure in Britain

Royal Society buys historic manuscript minutes before it was to go for auction.

Britain’s Royal Society has won a last-ditch battle to regain possession of one of its most valuable treasures, a seventeenth-century manuscript handwritten by the physicist Robert Hooke, which the society claims was taken from its archives some 300 years ago.

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Posted by Michael Hopkin on March 28, 2006 04:52 PM |

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