When Haley Svensrud, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션24, became the Bader Digital Humanities Undergraduate Research Assistant in 2022, she had no idea she would soon solve a mystery that would connect Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s to one of the fathers of modern physics.
Ms. Svensrud카지노 게임 컬렉션s position was funded by , with encouragement from the late Dr. Isabel Bader, LLD카지노 게임 컬렉션07, who also helped family friend Michael Hatcher donate several of his 16th-century books to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s. While shipping the collection from his Milwaukee home, Mr. Hatcher mentioned that one of the books, a mid-century edition of The Annals of Tacitus, may have once belonged to Sir Isaac Newton.
Mr. Hatcher bought the book at a now-defunct London auction house in the 1960s. Ms. Svensrud contacted the British Library and found a catalogue of the auction. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We were able to see the lot number,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션It was marked as being in poor condition and it sold for a surprisingly low price.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s not what we would call poor condition today,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Brendan Edwards, curator of the W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Library. 카지노 게임 컬렉션It isn카지노 게임 컬렉션t in perfect shape, but it카지노 게임 컬렉션s also 400-plus years old. The auctioneers didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t value it highly, and Mr. Hatcher got lucky. He didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t realize what he had until later.카지노 게임 컬렉션
The telltale signs confirming the book카지노 게임 컬렉션s provenance include two bookplates inside the cover bearing the names of former owners. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Just having one bookplate wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션t necessarily mean it was Newton카지노 게임 컬렉션s book,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Ms. Svensrud says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션but having both made it much more likely.카지노 게임 컬렉션
There are other signs, too, including significant dog-earing. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Newton was known to dog-ear his books,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Edwards, 카지노 게임 컬렉션and not just in the corner. He would often fold to point to a paragraph on the page, so the dog-ears could be large. Our book shows evidence of multiple dog-ears of different sizes.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션All these clues are not evident at first glance,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Edwards adds. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Haley was able to exercise her historical research skills and, short of Newton having signed his name on it, everything lines up. I카지노 게임 컬렉션d say we카지노 게임 컬렉션re 99.9 per cent certain that this was his book.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Dr. Edwards has notified the Newton Project, an Oxford-based group dedicated to preserving Newton카지노 게임 컬렉션s legacy, of the book카지노 게임 컬렉션s existence, and he and Ms. Svensrud expect a lot of scholarly interest in the years to come. In the meantime, it will remain, with the rest of Mr. Hatcher카지노 게임 컬렉션s collection, in the vaults.
