# Kestemont 2022: Forgotten books: The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture

> Mike Kestemont, Folgert Karsdorp, Elisabeth de Bruijn et al., 2022. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The inductive methods survey adapts its…

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# Forgotten books: The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture

Mike Kestemont, Folgert Karsdorp, Elisabeth de Bruijn et al., 2022. _Science_.

Borrows unseen-species estimators from ecology to estimate how many medieval European narratives, such as Arthurian romances, have been lost, and finds that the evenness of a literary tradition affected how well it survived.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1126/science.abl7655](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl7655)** Checked against the original0

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The inductive methods survey adapts its Chao-type estimators to ask how much text is missing from each section, calibrated against leaves known to be lost from the quire numbering.

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Kestemont, M., Karsdorp, F., de Bruijn, E., Driscoll, M., Kapitan, K. A., Ó Macháin, P., Sawyer, D., Sleiderink, R., & Chao, A. (2022). Forgotten books: The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl7655
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