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Henry James' portrait painted by John Singer Sargent in 1913

Display cases meant to look like prisms and represent the refraction of scientific and cultural wavelengths across history.

Black and white photograph of the subject.

writing manuscript dated from the third or fourth century AD

Typing random letters was surprisingly difficult, for I realized that which letters get hit is always affected by the shape of the keyboard. Typing random words was even impossible - every word I came up with had some connection to the word before…

book cover

Contains fragment of the Iliad.

"Manuscript consisting of 42 partial lines of text from the Iliad on the recto, and on the verso words from ca. 20 lines of a dated account give an approximate terminus ad quem for the recto.
Fragment from a papyrus roll."

Live-tweet of Homer's Iliad