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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Moving Through the Life Phases of Written Artefacts www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/about/blog/2... Steffen Döl, head of "Phased Transmission" @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social discusses the complex life of written artifacts after their production

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Moving Through the Life Phases of Written Artefacts

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New digitized manuscripts at e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/all/... @fragmentarium.bsky.social

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, Y 35 Miscellanea astronomica et computistica

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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT Opening ceremony: roundtable on DHST activities and its comissions. In this session, representatives of different DHST Commissions will speak about the role and activities DHST is carrying out. www.chstm.org/group/early-...

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Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia (ASTRA) @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

For this instalment of “10 Questions for the Historian of Science,” I spoke to Clemency Montelle about her research. Prof. Montelle delivered a public talk at the launch of the ASTRA Research Group in October 2024. www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-stor... @mpiwg.bsky.social

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10 Questions for the Historian of Science: Clemency Montelle | MPIWG

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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh 2026: Tabular Practices and the Cross-cultural Exchange of Knowledge in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy, sponsored by CHAMA. Presentations by E. Andriani, B. van Dalen, J. Garzon, C. Özdemir, J. Steele, Y. Verspreet, and M. Yavari, S. Zieme, and M. Husson.

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm especially excited to have contributed three chapters to this volume alongside an amazing group of scholars. My contributions include critical editions of previously unedited texts, and two chapters also present their first complete English translations. I hope you enjoy exploring the volume!

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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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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Next in our #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th c. astronomical and mathematical manuscript, what we’ve all been waiting for: diagrams! There are several, a couple illustrating eclipses, and diagrams of an astrolabe and a quadrant. Written in Italy. #medievalsky 🔗: bit.ly/41EAKFa

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Yesterday, at the @mpiwg.bsky.social, I led a hands-on session on solar computation. Participants engaged directly with manuscript tables and their accompanying instructions. Bringing historical computations to life through collective work, discussion, and shared curiosity was so much fun!

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Anthology from Aristotle's zoological works in the Latin translation by Michael Scot. Not identical with the one in Vat. lat. 3010, nor with any other florilegium that I have seen. (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 1291) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Next in our #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th century astronomical and mathematical manuscript written in Italy:: How do scribes deal with a hole in the parchment? This 13th century scribe outlined the hole in red on one side, and simply wrote around it. 🔗: bit.ly/41EAKFa

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Dr Kristen Lippincott gave a fascinating lecture in the Warburg recently, discussing the representation of the constellations and figures on a celestial globe, in artworks from c15th Italy kept in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Watch now ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzu... #renaissance #germanus

Image of artworks from the Bibliteca Nazionale Centrale in Italy. Credit: Bibliteca Nazionale Centrale, Italy.

Title card for the Kristen Lippincott lecture in The Warburg Institute, 2026. Credit: The Warburg Institute.

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The word is out... tomorrow's #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm Noon EST, on Zoom and open to all) is a 15th century folding medical and astrological almanac, in Middle English. Described and transcribed in the 19th century, it was thought to be lost. But we have it now, and we'll share it with you tomorrow.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 04/05/2026

The Star Wars Day x Medieval Monday mash up that no-one asked for or wanted... May the Fourth be with you. All images available on Digital Bodleian: MS. Douce 178, fol. 049v; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 79r; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 21v; MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 79v #MedievalMonday

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Here at The Warburg Institute, our storied collections are central to who we are and what we do. Please help us shape our collections and services by completing our (very!) short survey ➡️ www.surveymonkey.com/r/WarburgCollections2026 #thewarburginstitute #heritage #archive #culturalheritage #UoL

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La Science, CQFD @sciencecqfd.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Et lundi, on parlera d'Encelade, petite lune bleutée de Saturne dans laquelle on a depuis longtemps débattu d'une vie potentielle. Quelles surprises nous réservent les missions à venir, et accèdera-t-on jamais à son probable océan souterrain ? #ScienceCQFD

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We’re currently recruiting for a Project Cataloguer on a 1 year fixed-term contract to catalogue parts of our archives relating to our transfer from Hamburg to London in 1933. 35 hours per week £30,842 per annum Apply by 12 May 2026 Apply now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #jobopportunity #UoL

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Latest in a series of posts on the Linda Hall Library's earliest editions of Sacrobosco's book on late medieval astronomy, combined with Georg Peurbach's planetary models and including an early use of printing with color woodblocks: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM #MedievalSky

Three-color woodblock printed illustration of different types of lunar eclipses, with the process described in the posted text.

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

New #OpenAccess book: "DAGA TUDAA. Pensées #Toubou II" 📕 Mahuma Abaliy Sediké explores how oral traditions such as proverbs, #Riddles, and tales convey broader knowledge on #Astronomy, pharmacopoeia, or clan brands in the Central Sahara. 🔗 buff.ly/iHlZliE #HistSci #OralHistory #Anthropology

Cover of a book on Toubou culture: a photo of a group with pack animals in a sandy Sahara landscape, with the French title "DAGA TUDAA. Pensées Toubou II" by Mahuma Abaliy Sediké printed beneath.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...

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Technologies of Making and Knowing - HIAA

Beyond its modern conceptualization, technology has always informed artistic production...

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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

How did #medieval & #earlymodern people celebrate #LookUpAtTheSkyDay?💫 Hard to tell—their celestial observations are difficult to decode. But “Writing the Heavens" explores exactly that! Download it (open access!) & dive in under the stars! 🌠 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #medievalsky

Cover of the Book "Writing the Heavens", edited by Aura Heydenreich et al.

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Did you sneeze once or twice right after waking up today? Curious to know whether a diviner in the Middle Ages would have told you it would be a great day or a terrifying one? Listen to this talk I had the pleasure of giving for @a-beauchamp-fc.bsky.social

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Sciences de l'éternuement : quand l'avenir avait du nez

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Antoine Beauchamp @a-beauchamp-fc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A 16h sur @franceculture.fr Sciences Chrono parle d'éternuements. Si ce réflexe physiologique semble banal il a longtemps fait l'objet de divination par les savants astrologues-astronomes. Au Moyen Âge l'érudit Michel Scot intègre cette ptarmoscopie à son encyclopédie des sciences astrales

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Sciences de l'éternuement : quand l'avenir avait du nez

Au XIIIe siècle, la divination par l'éternuement constituait un système interprétatif rigoureux, intégré par l'érudit Michael Scot à son encyclopédie des sciences astrales. Pourquoi éternuer faisait-il l'objet d'une science, et que révèle la ptarmoscopie sur les modes de savoir médiévaux ?

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Antoine Beauchamp @a-beauchamp-fc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Avec Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social philologue, historienne des sciences à l'Institut Max Planck d’histoire des sciences à Berlin @mpiwg.bsky.social rattachée à l'Observatoire de Paris @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social

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Oxford Medieval Studies @oxmedstud.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A victim, a witness, a sacrifice? Listen to the latest Coffee Morning presentation by Jana Lammerding from the University of Vienna to learn more about the presence of the child in books on witchcraft in the Bodleian's Francis Douce Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMj... #witch #douce

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The Witch and the Child in the Bodleian's Douce Collection (Jana Lammerding)

YouTube video by Oxford Medieval Studies

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 22/01/2026

BIFOLD / DEEM Lab is hiring a Student Assistant. Help us to develop an efficient runtime for data science pipelines, based on the open-source library skrub. 📅 Apply by: Feb 11, 2026 🔗 Job ID: IV-SB-0079-2025 👉 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... @tuberlin.bsky.social

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Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI... I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.

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Dr. Ann Blair - How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books

YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center

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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Last few days to apply! Deadline 30/01/2026

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A limited number of grants will be proposed to support participants from low income countries and/or with little institutional support. Apply by 30/1/2026!

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Honoured to be part of the doctoral committee for this project at Hasselt University. Read more here: www.uhasselt.be/nl/over-uhas... #historyofastronomy #historyofscience

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BIFOLD Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data @bifold.berlin · 23/09/2025

We’ve just kicked off our workshop “AI-based Methods for the Humanities”. Judging by the happy faces in the group photo below 👇, this is going to be a fascinating exchange of ideas! www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... #DH @mpiwg.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @ecdigitalfuture.bsky.social

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It was too cloudy to see the lunar eclipse tonight, so here’s some fun diagrams of eclipses from a 13th century astronomical compilation, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Arch. Selden. B. 34, f. 47v 🌘

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Thanks to @stephenaj.bsky.social's fabulous article (still available at link below) I have had a look at this equally fabulous interactive astrolabe alexboxer.com/astrolabe/. It's a really useful tool for understanding what the instrument does and a lot of fun to play with! #histsci #astronomy

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Interactive Astrolabe

Interactive astrolabe

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I’m one of the Wikmedians at the #ICHST conference in Dunedin, and am sketchnoting the work we’re doing each day.

Whiteboard caricatures of unlucky ICHST attendees with their Wikidata items

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It's a privilege to be presenting at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology this week in Dunedin. Looking forward to engaging with colleagues and exchanging ideas in such an inspiring setting. #ichst #historyofscience

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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST) has officially begun! #historyofscience #historyofscienceandtechnology

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Excited to be co-presenting with Glen Van Brummelen a project that is very close to my heart at the upcoming International Congress of History of Science and Technology, taking place from June 28 to July 5 in Dunedin, New Zealand. #HistoryofAstronomy innovators.eventsair.com/QuickEventWe...

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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The upcoming International Congress of History of Science and Technology will take place from June 28 to July 5 in Dunedin, New Zealand. CHAMA is sponsoring two panels and co-sponsoring a third one in collaboration with CHOSTIS. Check out the programme: 🔗 innovators.eventsair.com/QuickEventWe...

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🎊Congratulations 💐 Director emerita Lorraine Daston has been awarded the Centennial Medal by @gsas.harvard.edu. Along with 3 fellow researchers, she is honored for her lasting contributions to knowledge, the broader research community, and society. 🔗 bit.ly/3FKKIwW #HistSci

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Harvard Griffin GSAS Presents Centennial Medal to Lorraine Daston | MPIWG

Lorraine Daston awarded Centennial Medal by Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

PhD position available in the field of history of astronomy from Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages Università di Pavia, Italy Deadline June 30, 2025 More details available at the following webpage: phd.unipv.it/call-41/ Please share!

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Call for applications to access PhD courses – 41st cycle – a. y. 2025/2026 – Dottorati di Ricerca

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Stephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

On commence! Kicking off the Paris training week in global history of astronomy at @labnf.bsky.social with Matthieu Husson and Alexandre Tur @tur-alexandre.bsky.social. More at eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/t...

Matthieu Husson and Alexandre Tur at BnF Richelieu

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

2025: Training week: A global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: new approaches, new digital tools Just a few photos from the first two days @cosmopoet.bsky.social @stephenaj.bsky.social @tur-alexandre.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social @irht-cnrs.bsky.social

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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/04/eshs... 🚨 Call for Papers: ESHS Early Career Network Meeting 🚨 The 2025 ESHS Early Career Network Meeting will be held at the University of Manchester (UK) on 9-10 September 2025! Proposal should be sent to ecn.eshs@gmail.com no later than 15th of May 2025.

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European Society for the History of Science Early Career Network Meeting Call for papers 9-10 September 2025, University of Manchester W...

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Today is the anniversary of Hans Meier’s death (17/4/1941). A former Warburg librarian, he was taken far too soon, leaving behind the most extensive transcription of Michael Scot’s Liber introductorius. Here's a blog I wrote on this: warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/michael... @warburginstitute.bsky.social

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Michael Scot and The Warburg Institute

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

CfA: Short-term fellowships and research stays open for applications 📖 Scholars of any career stage are invited to apply for research visits to the MPIWG! Please visit our website for details on duration and funding options. 🗓️ Deadlines: May 1/Sept 15 🔗 bitly.cx/bepR5 #HistSci #EnvHist #Sinology

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