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

Renée Vivien (1877 – 1909), was a British poet who tried to kill herself by drinking an excess of laudanum in 1908.

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

Mahmud Kashgari's map of the Turkic world, 11th century.
The thick orange lines are mountains. Green is water.

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.

"The Land That Time Forgot" (1975) is a Sci-Fi film, based on a fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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