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#OnThisDay in 1711, Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously (one of his first major poems).

Destruction of Jerusalem under the Babylonian rule.
Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493.

"Beasts on a tree.
"Speculum humanae salvationis, France 15th c.
Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 89, fol. 24v

Illustrations of Japanese victories in the Russo-Japanese war by Kobayashi Kiyochika.
Hurrah for Japan!, 19th century

"Ophthalmodouleia" was the first sys­tematic work on ocular disease and ophthalmic surgery. George Bartisch, 1583.

Rotulum hieroglyphicum, alchemical ms showing the processes for the producción of the philosopher's stone, 16th c.
WL

"Two Fools of Carnival"; two fools dance toward the right while playing and grinning, Hendrik Hondius I, 1642

Medieval Aliens😂
Henri de Ferrières, Livres du roi Modus et de la reine Ratio, 15th c, BnF, BdAl 3080, fols. 11r, 48v

Illustration in the 1665 edition of Fortunio Liceti’s 'De Monstris'

Reading skeleton illustrated by Cyril Bouda, from The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 1957 edition.