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COSMOPOET

@cosmopoet.bsky.social
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COSMOPOET is MSCA project by Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social. It is funded by the European Union (grant agreement No 101108590) and hosted by UGent. COSMOPOET rethinks the relationship between poetry and astronomy in the space of late Byzantine schools.

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵🧵At the end of August, Cosmopoet was in Vienna for the #ICBS2026, and there it spotted 👀 some sundials, clocks and zodiacs! So here is a little thread about a Vienna #starwalk: 1️⃣ Hofburg palace and its #sundial;2️⃣ Stephansdom two clocks, one of them featuring a zodiac; and
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
COSMOPOET's #starwalks continue with suggestions by those who attended the first Ghent StarWalk in June. The second one comes from Evelyne Diels: "the angel of time" holding a #sundial that can be seen on the facade of the Old Post Office building in Ghent. #MSCA ✨🚶‍♀️🤩
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Every five years Byzantinists of all corners of the world gather to discuss all things Byzantine, and next week in Vienna will be no exception. If the history of science is your passion, come hear us on Friday morning: www.icbs2026.org/program/ @aieb-byzantium.bsky.social #ICBS2026 #histsci
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And here it is, and our weird eclipse shadows
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Everyone looking and waiting, including the Book Tower!! 📚📚📚
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
8 minutes until we reach the maximum of 90% occultation visible here in Ghent
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And an alternative view
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Armand Pien Observatory has turned all of its telescopes to the celestial spectacle, including this history beauty
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Let's practice some Dutch and learn the mechanics behind a solar eclipse ☀️🌑🌍
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am in heaven, eclipse observation has started at the terrace of the Armand Pien observatory at Ghent!
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#starwalks the summer edition ✨✨✨: observation in the Observatory in Kamen bryag and a projection in the planetarium in Toplocentrala, Sofia. The first one was the true highlight: bnrnews.bg/en/post/9022...
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
COSMOPOET's #starwalks continue with suggestions by those who attended the first Ghent StarWalk in June. The first one comes from Grigory Vorobyev: Built in 1980, this landmark features a white terracotta relief representing "the cosmic marriage of the past and future". #MSCA ✨🚶‍♀️🤩
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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Alfonsine Astronomy, vol. 3: Computational Practices is now out—and fully open access! 🎉 "Unfolding more than two centuries of late mediaeval astronomers’ computational practices, this collective volume explores new venues in the history of astronomy." @brepols.net www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And just to continue the theme of marine creatures following the Écrevisse post from Paris: the Crab make an appearance at the Belgian coast #starwalk 💫✨💫✨🦀🦀🦀
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
And the last one for today: accidental #starwalk in Mechelen 💫✨💫 Sundials, Moons and the Spherical universe - not too bad for a leisurely Sunday exploration.
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Accidental #starwalk in Paris: how many times have you been looking for the Crab but instead found the Écrevisse ? ✨💫✨💫🤩 This is one of two we have found. Can you guess where the second one is?
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Still not ready with the Ghent #Starwalk recap hence only posting accidental #starwarks: Antwerp 💫✨🤩🤩
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Things have been so busy I forgot to post here the programme for the #CoSciLit 2026 where Cosmopoet will present tomorrow: coscilit2026.ugent.be/en/programme
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Programme
Download *The keynotes and the panels that appear in orange are hybrid and will be available for online participants.
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
On the occasion of the annual day of the Belgian Byzantinists, I also managed to do a second mini #starwalk in Leuven and so I would like to add to Verbiest's globe, this art installation, thanks to which it is possible to step right in the beginning of everything ✨✨💫💫
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Starting on Monday we will be teaching the history of the astral sciences on a global scale with the historical sources themselves: manuscripts, prints, globes, astrolabes - thanks to @labnf.bsky.social and @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social for hosting us!! ✨✨ eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/2... #histsci
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2026-Training week: Global history of astronomy week on primary sources A focus on cosmology, physics and astrology
org.: Eleonora Andriani, Christian Förstel, Victor Gysembergh, Catherine Hofmann, Matthieu Husson, Anuj Misra, Han Qi, Stephen Johnston, Agathe Keller, Romain Lefebvre, Guillaume Loizelet, Divna Manol...
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This was long in the making, mostly as I walked around Ghent and thought about it, and also in this space. We will give it a try tomorrow 🤩 💫✨ More updates soon! Including the map and the zine in digital form. Of course some of it will remain ephemeral. As it should be.
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
And a #starwalk in Leuven revealed the 1:1 replica of the 17th C Kangxi-Verbiest Star Globe: www.atlasobscura.com/places/kangx... 🤩💫✨⭐
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Despite the meltdown of the trains in Belgium, the #OIKOS Crash Course in #Greek #Palaeography hosted by @unileiden.bsky.social was a true and rare delight: an armillary sphere: a 9C Handy Tables and a very happy @dulila.bsky.social 😍🤩✨✨💫💫 #starwalks
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Accidental #starwalk finds in Brugge: a gnomon (www.patrimoine-horloge.fr/ha-bruges.html) and Simon Stevin's "beads" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_S...) ✨🤩💫
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Next week in Leiden: OIKOS Crash Course in Greek Palaeography 2026 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... I am super excited that the display session I am responsible for will focus on the history of science with Byzantine copies of Euclid, Kleomedes and, of course, Ptolemy🤩🤓✍️📖
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OIKOS Crash Course in Greek Palaeography 2026
The ERC project Ancient Corrections (AnCor) organizes a two-day course in Greek palaeography within the Research School OIKOS in collaboration with the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society, Le...
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I hope I get to do a little recap of the Multigraphic Written Artefacts second workshop soon, but for now an entry into my #starwalks from a beloved Butte aux Cailles where the entrance of metro Corvisart sports four terrestrial spheres with a zodiac, two at each gate 🤩🤩✨✨💫💫
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📣The collaboration between @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social and @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social continues with the second workshop dedicated to the spatio-temporal profile of multigraphic written artefacts: 18–19 May 2026, Paris, at Observatoire de Paris and online. 🤩
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Carmen GB (0000-0002-6819-9525) @manuscriptagraeca.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026
@cosmopoet.bsky.social , maybe of your interest (even if Latin) ⬇️
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Wonderful days in Cambridge with Visualizing the Unknown @huygensknaw.bsky.social and Visualizing Science @bhmpi.bsky.social teams to explore collections and exchange with scholars working on Visual Culture and Natural History. @Fitzwilliammuseum @hpscambridge.bsky.social @whipplemuseum.bsky.social
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I 💜 @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social "10 Questions for the Historian of Science". To the point and utterly enjoyable 😊 Here is the latest installment with Luís Campos Ribeiro (another EIDA contributor✨🌐✍🏻 & historian of astrology): www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-stor...
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10 Questions for the Historian of Science: Luís Campos Ribeiro | MPIWG
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A planetary diagram by 10-yo Leonora Carrington positioning the planet Starvinsky, a cosmological diagram that came later, a windrose without directional labels, and the world as an egg with celestial circles inscribed. @Musée du Luxembourg #cosmopoetinlove #diagrams personal #cosmologies
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This week dedicated to #diagrams is now over, but the work continues towards the publication of our results and the next phase in the life of the #EIDA community. Huge thanks to @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social for hosting us and for sharing it's beautiful secrets with us! #msca #histsci
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A four-year-long collaboration with EIDA-Editing and analysing hIstorical astronomical Diagrams with Artificial intelligence reaches a crucial milestone in Paris next week: eida.hypotheses.org/a-global-his... 🤩✨ @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social #histsci #diagrams #manuscripts
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Conference 2026
A Global History of diagrams in Astral Sciences Practical aspects Observatoire de Paris, Salle du Conseil, 14 – 16 April, 2026 It will be possible to attend the conference in remotely using this link ...
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thrilled to have COSMOPOET represented as part of the celebrations for 30 years of MSCA at UGent yesterday! 🎉✨ Here’s to many more years of curiosity, collaboration, and discovery! 🚀💫 #MSCA30 #MSCA #ResearchLife #UGent
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🎉 Happy 30 Years to #MSCA, a programme that has helped researchers explore new frontiers and build independent careers! COSMOPOET will have a stand at the networking event this afternoon — come meet @dulila.bsky.social and join the celebration! event.ugent.be/registration...
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Event Registration
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#starrywalks in #ghent continue with a chance discovery on Korenlei, a corner I have taken multiple times before. I guess today the light was just right for me to notice this beauty 😍 #armillary #sphere
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🧵🧵Spring brought more daylight and Cosmopoet's second guest author, fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣: Davide Massimo (@davidemax.bsky.social) is this month's Cosmopoet, and he brings us an example of an epigram concerned with the 'image of the sky':
A celestial globe; late ninth-century manuscript. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 250, S. 472
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Random cosmopoetic things from recent weeks
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This Thursday, 12 March 2026, Emmylou Haffner and Nadia Podzemskaia organise a truly cool event, across arts and sciences, on the topic of points and lines. COSMOPOET will be present with achromatic lines and cosmological diagrams. The program is available here: www.item.ens.fr/points-et-li...
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Item – [Journée d’étude] Points et lignes en arts et sciences
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This week Cosmopoet is in sunny 🌞 (no joke!) Cambridge and there are clocks all around: some eat time, while others are on a diet ☺️
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
OIKOS Course Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages at UGent 📅 2–3 February 2026📍Ghent University The biennial OIKOS course on Byzantine Culture brought together ReMA and PhD students from Belgium and the Netherlands for an intensive exploration of the theme of Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages.
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Happily listening to Arpine Asryan about the introduction of #sundials to Armenia in the seventh century 🥰☀️🕒
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The final #poem for this week is a poem cast against a #cosmic background in the movie Interstellar: "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas. I thank my colleague Yiming Liang for this suggestion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_np...
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Interstellar - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Scene 1080p HD
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
And a second post today, this time for the project records: on 2 and 3 February 2026, the OIKOS #Byzantium in the Global Middle Ages course will take place and within it, a very exciting research mixer, a result of COSMOPOET's ongoing collaboration with #HPIMS: www.rug.nl/research/res...
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The second #poem this week was suggested by Matthieu Husson, a historian of medieval astronomy. This is "Remember", by Joy Harjo: poets.org/poem/remembe...
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Remember
Remember the sky that you were born under,
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🧵After learning about the idea behind Cosmopoet, friends and colleagues have started sending me poems that fit the theme and that they love. This week I want to share them here, one at a time. The first suggestion is by Eleonora Cattafi, a poet herself (research.flw.ugent.be/nl/eleonora....):
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Dr. Eleonora Cattafi | Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte - Onderzoeksportaal
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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The call for the 2026 Training Week: Global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources – A Focus on Cosmology, Physics and Astrology is now open! eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/2... June 8-12 2026 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Observatoire de Paris Deadline: 30/01/26 #historyofastralsciences
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I took the wrong exit and stumbled upon the impressive constellation ceiling leading towards Galerie Ravenstein ✨✨✨💫💫💫🌌🌌🌌 #starwalks
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
New volume of Methodos Vol. 25 (2025) journals.openedition.org/methodos/10599 @openedition.bsky.social Les mathématiques médiévales dans le monde latin @medphiljournals.bsky.social
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25 | 2025 Les mathématiques médiévales dans le monde latin
Revue interdisciplinaire croisant autour d’un thème les méthodes et analyses de philosophes, philologues et historiens des sciences Multidisciplinary journal of research on philosophy, philogy and...
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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A new installment in the Ghent #starwalks (and I don't mean the recent sightings of Nicolas Cage shooting a movie on the Graslei) comes from a private residence, a sun ☀️ and moon 🌙 house that is only visible after dark 🌑
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