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The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures by William Hunter, 1774.
Wellcome Library, London.

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
- Roald Dahl.
Photo: L. Whittaker

#OnThisDay in 1564, Galileo Galilei (physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, ...) was born in Pisa, Italy.

"The Facetious Nights of Straparola", often being called the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales, 1550.

Caricature of Oscar Wilde as Narcissus from a collection of portraits etc.
James Edward Kelly, 1894

"Sleep is good, he said, And books are better."

- George R.R. Martin
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How to sit at the desk: How to hold your pen...

The Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs & Anecdotes of Remarkable & Eccentric Persons in All Ages & Countries, 1788

‘Nature forging a baby’.
BL, Harley 4425, f. 140 . Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose, XVth cent.

Titivillus, the "patron demon of scribes," provides an easy excuse for the errors in manuscripts when they are copied