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The article would have been much more useful with a link to a PDF of a scan of the notebook.

Since the article is already 5 years old ("(2017)" missing from the title), I'm not the first one thinking this. A Web search led to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/8smja9/is_there_a_... but nothing more, unfortunately.



Many papers are here and ridiculously seems nothing is scanned... Sounds like five Master Thesis on the historical Feynman could be extracted... :-)

"Guide to the Papers of Richard Phillips Feynman, 1933-1988" https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5n39p6k0/admin/

A photocopy of what you are looking for can be found in Box 16, Folder 1...(pg 10 of the PDF) with the original at Niels Bohr Library: "Guide to the Papers of Richard Phillips Feynman, 1933-1988" - http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/caltech/feynmanr.pdf

It seems quite a lot of work to be done on organizing all this.

"... The great mass of Feynman's working notes are scattered on miscellaneous sheets of papers, envelopes, placemats, and seemingly whatever else was at hand when thoughts struck him. Feynman occasionally took time to organize these into a system for files, although only a small fraction of his notes found their way into such a system. The great majority was left in a scattered condition and grouped during the processing of the papers as well as possible by subject matter. Many miscellaneous papers remain..."

Also looks like another goldmine are the Caltech Archives' Historical Files: https://collections.archives.caltech.edu/search?op%5B%5D=&q%...




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