The secretary’s minutes

FROM a Hampshire cupboard find to “missing link” scientific discovery of a generation. A manuscript minute book kept by Robert Hooke during his years as Secretary to the Royal Society has rapidly and rightly been elevated to scientific sacred relic and national treasure.

The announcement that this scruffy, 520pp document was expected to sell for something in excess of £…

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