A Well-Travelled Book - Objectivity 257

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Elizabeth Lawrence, Rare Books Librarian at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections, shows Brady her favourite 'shaggy dog story'... More links below ↓↓↓
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@JoletteRoodt 2 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth's unashamed geek-out is such a validation for all of us who get excited over (seemingly) small things in our field 🙌

@Kabup2 2 жыл бұрын

She's amazing, I love people like her.

@backwashjoe7864 2 жыл бұрын

That was so adorable, and I can totally relate! :)

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 жыл бұрын

The ultimate goal of academia is to become such an expert in a topic you're the only one geeking out about something that you get to teach everyone else about.

@lebesnec 2 жыл бұрын

"it's a small mistake, everyone will forget about it" 170 years later:

@lahollander 2 жыл бұрын

It's fascinating how much we can learn from a seemingly simple mistake as a misprint.

@me_and_my_piper739 2 жыл бұрын

Love these videos. I wish they were more frequent. I always enjoy them and learn a lot along the way. Thank you! 👍🏻

@scrochum 2 жыл бұрын

we know what needs to happen now, Brady needs to go to the Californian historical society to see the diary

@lo1bo2 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps "borrow" the diary?

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 жыл бұрын

He's got to pull a CGP Grey and take a journey just to fact-check something.

@matthewb3113 2 жыл бұрын

How wonderful that this book has been preserved to reveal so much interesting history. Thanks for the video again. Love Objectivity.

@aimanapril24 2 жыл бұрын

absolutely love her enthusiasm !

@wtspman 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. You could probably do a miniseries on this book. From what I remember, the book was commissioned by Adm Francis Beaufort. It was valuable for helping to standardize methods of data collection for people who hadn’t been trained in science. It was also valuable for describing how to do science on a ship.

@wtspman 2 жыл бұрын

You could even do a video (or a few) on Beaufort, himself.

@Philrc 2 жыл бұрын

Hurray! An Objectivity video!!

@AaronOfMpls 2 жыл бұрын

Regarding the copyright issue: some British authors (like Dickens) got around the problem by publishing their later books in the US first, shortly _before_ their UK publication. Though the US did eventually sign international copyright treaties in the 1880s. A cool find 😎-- and now I'm tempted to find a corrected version of that chapter!

@christophermclaughlin8899 2 жыл бұрын

Poor Darwin, his work made a mess by sloppy printers but still, what a nice story! I have a copy of Darwin’s The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom that is stamped U.S. Com’n of Fish and Fisheries, Dec. 27 1883, Steamer Albatross, which I think did research in the Philippines. Neat to think that it was aboard a research vessel over 135 years ago. Another stamp says Library Jun 1- 1925 Fisheries, so they kept it around a good while.

@praveenb9048 2 жыл бұрын

I read the other day that the Moroccan ambassador to the court of Charles II was made a fellow of the Royal Society. May I suggest an episode about items / documents related to that event.

@kitty_gamer23 2 жыл бұрын

if it had been printed correctly it would just be another old book, but interesting things happened and that makes this copy pretty special

@peterkelley6344 2 жыл бұрын

An amazing story out of history. Someone ought to write a book about these moments in history to preserve what the history really was.

@RenshawYT 2 жыл бұрын

Chatting about the evolution of a book with errors in a chapter by Darwin. Nicely done!

@cernejr 2 жыл бұрын

Great story.

@collinscody57 2 жыл бұрын

I always find it interesting how random people from history will be remembered because of a mistake or screw up.

@blindleader42 2 жыл бұрын

Just as she said at 8:05, It's a fantastic story.

@paulnicholas4184 2 жыл бұрын

This is my second viewing of this episode and I'm still discovering wee gems of 'fantastic history' within! :-)

@ObjectivityVideos 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you're enjoying it Paul!

@shadowdancenz 2 жыл бұрын

I have had 3 books that were misprinted. (Chapters missing with other chapters duplicated). It happened to the complete Sherlock Holmes book I had years ago, a cross stitch pattern book, and also a fitness book exercises for sporting injuries. So yep, still happens :)

@allenyordy6700 2 жыл бұрын

Please oh please Brady can you get some more time with the professors I do miss some sixty symbols thank you for the incredible work none the less your a magnificent human and I just enjoy all of your content

@Yezpahr Жыл бұрын

I second this notion. All of it.

@daniochoa2110 2 жыл бұрын

Defenetely my favorite episode.

@Wrackey 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Title doesn't do it justice 😅

@lwaldron9745 Жыл бұрын

I owned a hardback copy of Mary Renault's novel "Mask of Apollo" with a very similar printing error.

@heaslyben 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you again.

@bigguix 2 жыл бұрын

so cool !

@iseriver3982 2 жыл бұрын

I bet Richard Owen was pleased it was darwins chapter that got messed up. He who laughs last laughs hardest.

@PopeLando 2 жыл бұрын

4:41 Was it owned by the Artist Formerly Known As Prince?

@TheOwlman 2 жыл бұрын

This is why I always proffred my comments.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 жыл бұрын

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@rjung_ch 2 жыл бұрын

Great story

@SaugotChowdhury Жыл бұрын

Good to see Richard owen name there as a biologist 😁

@bigsarge2085 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

@oliverlane9716 Жыл бұрын

I like to think in some alternative universe Wallace was credited with the theory of evolution whilst Darwin was just some obscure geologist only known for some unfortunate misprint.

@BillMSmith 2 жыл бұрын

Delightful story, well delivered. I must say, I'm skeptical on parts of the story. I'm thinking the publisher just said "I'll show those Americans. Maybe now they'll stop stealing out copyrighted stuff."

@HermanVonPetri 2 жыл бұрын

It's not unheard of for publishers to put deliberate mistakes into different copies of their works in order to track down who is stealing them. It's a tried and true method of exposing leakers and copyright infringers. Although, I doubt that's what was happening here because the publisher had no legal recourse at the time. It's also a method of establishing copyright of "unique" content for otherwise public domain information. Map makers, for example, are known to put "paper towns" into their maps that don't really exist in order to prove that they are the original copyright holder.

@mcol3 2 жыл бұрын

I saw that wooden furniture, and I immediately said University of Edinbugh Library.

@robnorris4770 2 жыл бұрын

A real ‘49er.

@johnopalko5223 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, proofreading is sometimes more effective _after_ publication.

@AndyLundell 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone trying to copy the book would have noticed the mistake. I wonder if any unauthorized American publishers were able to get a descrambled version on the market before the corrected version made it across legitimately.

@ohareport 2 жыл бұрын

most book printers binned off their QA departments after the global financial crisis and haven’t looked back. the incidence of misbound pages, out of order chapters and portions of books interjected into others is very high and they just dgaf.

@AndyLundell 2 жыл бұрын

This probably was not a cheap book. I'd be pretty irritated if I paid good money for a book like this and an entire chapter was unusable. Even having the reprinted chapter as an enclosure would be pretty annoying.