Manuscript·34 CDF art. 168-3·Undated

Five pages of notes and draftClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 5 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 168-3 (Five pages of notes and draft), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 168-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 5 of 10

Dik. type of person not willing to learn from other people's exper. (see sickle !! and name of god) He prefers his pers. opin. to any suggest. and take the risk to oppose scientific truth in to order to bappear to be right. He is intelligent but not modest enough which is the outcome of real wisdom & experience (see his phrases.... à la Swedish, same outlook). He lacks the critical sense & accept other people opin. without thinking through, he does the solo evid. & submits unconditionally to Furumark artificial dating based only on stylis. analysis & now consid. rejected as to late. — See ex. p. 140 etc.

— How fragil our deduct. pending final excav. : Dik. termed his building palace in his first letter & report — when a few months later, I found an even more extensive building of same ashlar qualiti, he dropped the term. — — Goes so far as to falsify evidence, p. 142, 115 … continues

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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