Weatherday: Early English incunabulum

Wet afternoon in Cadiz, Spain (2008).

Generally cloudy, mainly dry. Some bright spells later.

Temperatures up to 13deg in light to moderate southwesterly breezes.

On this day in 1477, the first dated book printed in England, Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers, was published by William Caxton.

(Headline: An incunabulum is a book or pamphlet published before 1501, printed as opposed to manuscript written by hand.)

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