Comment by jacquesm
Or, maybe he had a sense of humor, and made his margin annotation knowing full well that this would cause a lot of headscratching. It may well be the first recorded version of nerdsniping.
Or, maybe he had a sense of humor, and made his margin annotation knowing full well that this would cause a lot of headscratching. It may well be the first recorded version of nerdsniping.
Or he forgot about it? Why should he have a margin note at the top of his mind?
I make notes all the time that I accidentally discover years later with some amusement.
More likely he decided to leave it in as a nerdsnipe rather than he wrote it in the first place as a nerdsnipe (seems more likely he thought he had it?)