Reuters Reports A last-minute deal reached on Tuesday ensures a manuscript charting the birth of modern science, lost for more than 200 years, will be housed at the Royal Society rather than falling into private hands.
Hailed as “science’s missing link”, the journal of Robert Hooke had been due to go on sale at auction with a price tag in excess of 1 million pounds.
But just before the sale was due to take place, auctioneers Bonhams said an anonymous private bidder had agreed to buy it and give it to the Royal Society, Britain’s academy of leading scientists, which had said it could not afford to buy it.
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