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Polygraphiae by Johannes Trithemius (1518), the first printed book on Cryptography (secure communication).

Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), was an illustrator notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs.

"Satan, Sin and Death."
🎨The dramatic scene is the work of the 18th century painter and engraver William Hogarth.

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.
Walter Whitman, American poet, died #OnThisDay in 1892.

#OnThisDay in 1890, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories, starts.

“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. ”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
📷Andy Bagley

“To be able to forget means sanity.”
― Jack London.
📷Jack and Charmian London in Hawaii, 1915.

"High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry" (Monell, S. H, 1910)
📖⏩ https://t.co/YqUaTYumvz

"Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
― Alexander Pushkin.
🎨 Pushkin on a Park Bench. 1899