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Isaac Newton, one of the most influential scientists of all time, was born on this day in 1642.
🎨Enoch Seeman. 1726.

Muscle man illustrations. The circles on either side of the head illustrate the four supposed ventricles of the brain.
WMS 290, 15th c.WL.

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”
―Dante Alighieri
Dante's Dream on the Day of the Death of Beatrice. G Rossetti, 1880

Polygraphiae (1518), the first printed book on cryptography by Johannes Trithemius.
Trithemius died on this day in 1516.

School teacher, with poems "Maistre Bouffon" and "Les Enfans Desolez"(possibly a satire on Richelieu), 1634.

"For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence."
#OnThisDay in 1870, Alexandre Dumas ('The Count of Monte Cristo') dies at 68.

Huitzilopochtli, the Principal Aztec God.
The Tovar Codex, contains detailed information about the rites & ceremonies of the Aztecs 16tg c)

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet, died on this day in 1935.
📷Robert Nyman.

"Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1935), Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939).

Room where Alexander Pushkin lived when he was a student, Leningrad.
📷RIA Novosti archive, image #549323 - Yuriy Kaver.