Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

Before #BlackHistoryMonth closes, read this incredible piece with a jaw-dropping twist on #FrancisWilliams who was "in his lifetime...the most famous Black person in the world... He was rich... a gentleman...a scholar...celebrated as a clever and accomplished person." ☄️ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

Susan Schweik introduced me to this exceptioanl work by Fará Dabhoiwala of anti-racist scholarship that reads like a detective story. It is riveting. #criticalracetheory #jamaicanhistory #arthistory #franciswilliams

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

Speaking of LRB, this is breathtaking 👇🏽💙
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
(ht @kottke.org ) #FrancisWilliams

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

An extraordinary story about a portrait of the Black Jamaican scientist #FrancisWilliams, courtesy of @londonreview.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... The best thing I’ve read in a long time #18thC #FrancisWilliams

X-ray evidence of Black maths scholar portrait reveals snubbed genius Clues in painting suggest Francis Williams successfully managed to compute and witness trajectory of Halley’s comet over Jamaica in 1759

How a 1759 painting hints that Francis Williams, a Black scholar in colonial Jamaica, may have calculated and observed Halley’s Comet’s trajectory—a remarkable feat of intellect and astronomy in the 18th century. #BlackSky #FrancisWilliams www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...