Charles Darwin notebooks lost and assumed stolen

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

antpls wrote: post #100

interestica wrote: post #58

Luckily: "The two Darwin notebooks had previously been digitised and their content is available online." . University of Cambridge has a bit more on their "appeal" site ( https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/DarwinAppeal ) The digitized notebooks are available: [1] https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00121/1 [2] https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-00122/1 Also, yesterday was the anniversary of the release of On the Or…

I believe it is important to keep the physical version at a safe place for as long as possible. How long before a new wave of "flat earthers" decides the digital version is just a deep fake and it never existed?

Post by tokai » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:04 PM UTC

momento wrote: post #122

tokai wrote: post #41

If the thefts from the Royal Library, in Denmark, is anything to go by, I would look into past librarians. Especially those that have retired. https://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7874/

A great read. Too bad the images no longer load on the page. I would love to see what these books looked like.