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unusual facts about Bulfinch's Mythology


Federico Castellón

Over the years, Castellón’s work as an illustrator would eventually include Bulfinch's Mythology, The Story of Marco Polo, and The Little Prince.


Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch (1796–1867), an American writer best known as author of Bulfinch's Mythology

Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine

Danny uses a computer that Professor Bulfinch has created for NASA to prepare his homework, despite Professor Bullfinch's warning that Danny is to leave the machine alone.

Harrison Gray Otis House

The design is said to be inspired by a William Bingham house that Bulfinch saw in 1789 in Philadelphia, in turned derived from a London example.

Nicholson Baker

The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper (1898– 1911) (2005, Bulfinch; ISBN 0-8212-6193-2)

William Blake's illustrations of Paradise Lost

In Blake's mythology, Albion's fall from a divine androgyny to a sexual nature divides him into the Four Zoas, their spectres (representative of hypocritical morality), and their emanations (female halves).

In the Paradise Lost illustrations, Adam is analogous to the fallen Albion, Satan to Adam's Spectre and Eve to Adam's emanation.


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