# Lost manuscript found in cupboard

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-manuscript-found-in-cupboard/344325>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 13, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-manuscript-found-in-cupboard/344325 "2006-02-13T19:54:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-manuscript-found-in-cupboard/344325/1 "2006-02-13T19:54:35Z")

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[This](http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1705687,00.html) is pretty cool. It seems that the long lost minutes of the Royal Society have fallen out of the woodwork! There is also, apparently proof that Robert Hook did indeed invent the watch that facilitated the measurement of longitude. I hope that someone steps forward and buys them on behalf of either the Royal Society, or the Robert Hook historical society, just as long as the documents are available for scholarly study, and not hoarded away.

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**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-manuscript-found-in-cupboard/344325/2 "2006-02-13T20:06:14Z")

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[Here](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/4696484.stm) is a BBC article about it. (Yeah, I see I mispelled Robert Hooke’s name.)

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-manuscript-found-in-cupboard/344325/3 "2006-02-13T20:09:19Z")

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This is a clear case for the use of National Lottery funds - or for the taxman to use them in lieu of tax. But I don’t have a lot of faith in the committee in charge of disbusement.