Bibliophiliaさんのイラストまとめ

#OnThisDay in 1895, "The Adventure of Norwood Builder", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories, starts.

List written by Leonardo da Vinci, reminds himself to obtain a skull, to get his books on anatomy bound, spectacles, stockings, shoelaces, a pane of glass, forceps, etc. 1510.
https://t.co/eHDFRkThxL

🎨Elephant and dragon. Harley 3244, folio 39v, Bestiary (ff. 36-71v), 13th century, British Library.
#WorldElephantDay

#OnThisDay in 1570, Guy Fawkes (also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish), English Catholic conspirator who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was born in York, England.

🎨"Journey to the moon".
French caricature depicting a man riding on a bicycle-like flying machine, 1875.

Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (author of 'Micrographia') died #OnThisDay in 1703.

#DidYouKnow?
As a young boy, Paul Verlaine had read Charles Baudelaire‘s Les fleurs du mal, inspiring him to write.

#DidYouKnow?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry never saw his book "The Little Prince" published in his home country (France).
📖"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."

#OnThisDay in 1991, Sotheby's announced the discovery of a long-lost manuscript of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
📖Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

#OnThisDay in 1881, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov) died of a pulmonary hemorrhage.
According to one reporter, more than 100,000 mourners were present in his funeral.