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message 1: by lethe (new)

lethe | 16360 comments https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

Some editions have Nuccio Ordine as primary author, others Abraham Flexner. Should be the same on all editions. There is also a separate(?) edition with Diamante Nuccio Ordine as the author, see topic link.


message 3: by Moloch (last edited Nov 30, 2018 02:33AM) (new)

Moloch | 3975 comments Looking at it, they may be two different books (one by Ordine, one by Flexner) wrongly combined

edit: or the one by Ordine has an appendix by Flexner


message 4: by Moloch (last edited Nov 30, 2018 02:52AM) (new)

Moloch | 3975 comments So, I've separated the editions with just Flexner's short essay (1939) and a commentary by another author.

The other editions include an essay by Ordine and the Flexner's one. Primary author is Ordine for all.

For both works there are some duplicates for the superlibrarians to delete, which I'm going to separate now.

I think now it's ok, please check if something is wrong.

(one edition needs to be re-combined after the merging)


message 5: by lethe (last edited Nov 30, 2018 03:11AM) (new)

lethe | 16360 comments Yes, the titles are confusing, aren't they? I found them through Het nut van nutteloos onderzoek ("the usefulness of useless research") by Robbert Dijkgraaf, who also contributed to one of the Flexner editions.

It's looking good now, thank you!


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