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"Planisphærium cœleste".
Celestial map from the 17th century, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit.
Émilie Du Châtelet wrote several treatises in maths, including the groundwork for Albert Einstein’s E=mc^2 equation.
"Samuel Beckett's Adventures of Tintin".
🎨Tom Gauld (born 1976), is a Scottish cartoonist and illustrator.
Salvador Dali’s Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland. Maecenas Press-Random House, 1969.
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James Joyce in 1888 at age six. Possibly in Bray, Dublin. The Joyces lived there from 1887 to 1892.
Pandora (released all the evils of humanity) and Pygmalion (who carved a woman out of ivory)
🎨A Book of Myths, 1915.
J. M. Barrie (as Hook) and Michael (as Peter Pan) on the lawn at Rustington, August 1906.
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View of Lisbon, with ships tossed about in the treacherous waters of the inlet. c.1560-1632. BL Add. 15217, f.32
#OnThisDay in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, was born in Scotland.
"A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.."
-Charles Baudelaire.
🎨Girl with a book by Edouard Manet, 1875