"For example, there was a kit for a motorcycle that was never assembled. From 1913."
Jeez, how many visitors to this blog have some project like that? "Yup, been meanin' ta get ta thet..."
A familiar example of this (to mathematicians, anyway) is Ramanujan's "Lost Notebook": briefly, R. died in 1920, leaving a thick sheaf of manuscript papers put in the hands of G.N. Watson for scrutiny, editing, and, ultimately, publication; it was recovered from a pile on the floor of Watson's flat a couple years after his death in 1965; and at least edited and published within the last six years...
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Date: 2011-07-18 09:38 pm (UTC)Jeez, how many visitors to this blog have some project like that? "Yup, been meanin' ta get ta thet..."
A familiar example of this (to mathematicians, anyway) is Ramanujan's "Lost Notebook": briefly, R. died in 1920, leaving a thick sheaf of manuscript papers put in the hands of G.N. Watson for scrutiny, editing, and, ultimately, publication; it was recovered from a pile on the floor of Watson's flat a couple years after his death in 1965; and at least edited and published within the last six years...