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Sietske Fransen

@sietskefransen.bsky.social
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Historian of early modern science and art | max planck research group leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History #VisualizingScienceInMediaRevolutions | Co-Investigator of www.visualizingtheunknown.com

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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Followed by an amazing day in the @royalsociety.org library, looking at the Charter book (explained here to us by Rupert Baker) and the drawings by Marcello Malpighi.
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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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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🎉👏 Congratulations to @sietskefransen.bsky.social, Head of our Max Planck Research Group "Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions", who was appointed Professor by special appointment of Early Modern European Intellectual History at Radboud University in Nijmegen 🇳🇱! www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
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Sietske Fransen appointed professor by special appointment of Early Modern European Intellectual History | Radboud University
As of February 1, 2026, Sietske Fransen has been appointed professor by special appointment of Early Modern European Intellectual History, at the Faculty of Arts. This chair is financed by the Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Stichting.
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This was one of those amazing experiences: 3 days of focus, no computers, learning skills from a fantastic teacher, which we can use for our own historical inquiries. #lovingmyjob #whatagreatanddedicatedteam #drawing
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@chrmeijer.bsky.social #worms
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
@trude-dijkstra.bsky.social
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Super dress match met Trude Dijkstra vanavond bij #avondwm, de Avond van wetenschap & maatschappij waar we als tafelwetenschappers een stelling mochten inbrengen en bespreken met fantastische tafelgenoten. #boekwetenschap & #wetenschapsgeschiedenis
Trude en ik in de Pieterskerk in Leiden waar we allebei in het feestelijk zwart met groen accent aankwamen, zonder dat het was afgesproken
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Venice this week! For the opening of the exhibition “Diagrams, a project by AMO/OMA” at the Fondazione Prada, Ca’Corner. It has been fantastic to play a small role in this project and it is even better to now see the whole show in reality, and amazing to speak to all the people involved
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
How very exciting! Beautiful cover! Looking forward to reading the book
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Dank je, Charlotte!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is a project I have been working on for several month and I am very excited that the exhibition “Diagrams. A Project by AMO/OMA” will open soon —> 10 May at Ca’ Corner, Fondazione Prada, Venice
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This week I have the honour of taking care of the Bluesky account @historicivertellen.bsky.social, where I well show you a bit more about my work (week). All in Dutch!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The amazing #drawing course “Drawing Rome” will run again, taught by artist and architect David Dernie. It’s an amazing way to learn to see, observe and draw (and to explore #Rome) for beginners as well as experienced people.
Advertisement of drawing course “Drawing Rome”, against a black and white background of the ceiling of the Pantheon
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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
📐📏 French mathematic Jean Du Breuil (1602–1670) explains how scale impacts our perception. The Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions, led by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, examines how science is depicted in our rare book collection: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visuali.../v...
Jean Du Breuil, Perspectiva Practica, 1710, 123
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today! Exciting seminar about #materiality and #visualizations of the #sky with Omar Nasim and Nicholas Robbins. Taking place 14:00-16:00 @bhmpi.bsky.social and also online. Please join us! www.biblhertz.it/events/41036... 🗃️🔭🧪🎨
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From Storms to Stars: Materiality and Visualizations of the Sky
How do we capture the ever-changing nature of the sky? This research seminar examines the different strategies artists and scientists have used to visualize the terrestrial and celestial sky.
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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Joachim Sandrart presents two legends about the invention of drawing. More in the online exhibition of our rare books curated by the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social 🔗: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...
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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Wonderful opportunity to undertake a 4-year fully funded PhD at UoAmsterdam for a project on Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy working with the fantastic @maartjevg.bsky.social werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD position: Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). You will work on the Italian subproject of the project Daily Bread. A Comparative...
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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Less than a week to apply for predoc and postdoc fellowships in my group. Come and join us! Deadline March 3rd. @bhmpi.bsky.social www.biblhertz.it/de/opportuni...
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Postdoctoral (M/F/D) / Predoctoral Fellows (M/F/D)Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions”
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Please add @bhmpi.bsky.social
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Here is a link to an online exhibit my team curated out of the amazing rare books collection of the @bhmpi.bsky.social. All books are also fully digitized and freely available to study! 🗃️ #earlymodern #science #art
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#earlymodern #arthistory #materiality #histsci #science 🧪🔬🗃️
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Very pleased this came out! I investigate epistemic values of texts, images, and objects in seventeenth-century microscopy. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Objects, drawings, and texts as tools of persuasion: the interactions of three Dutch microscopists with the Royal Society around 1670 | Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Three Dutch microscopists, Regnier de Graaf, Johannes Swammerdam and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek all started corresponding with the Royal Society in London around 1670. Their letters were often accompanied by drawings and objects, thus devising inventive ways ...
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Final call for fellows in my group, please apply if you want to be part of the team!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Happy #paper day with the research group, visiting the Museo della carta e della filigrana in #Fabriano. Learning about the history of paper (making) and doing it ourselves! @bhmpi.bsky.social #visualizingscience
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Amazing, congratulations!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
To whom it may concern:
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is such an amazing course! I did it in the summer and loved it! Learned so much about drawing, Rome, and looking and observing. I’d recommend it to everyone!
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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding. Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone! #museumjobs 📜 #histsci www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/
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Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
@chrmeijer.bsky.social 🐛
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thank you! Yes, that must have been Pamela Mackenzie www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/ma..., she was a phd researcher in my team, and wrote a fantastic thesis on Grew!
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Pamela Mackenzie | People | HPS
Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Pamela Mackenzie is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Researcher and visiting scholar in the History and Philosophy of Science Department, working under the supervision of Dr Dáni...
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just found this, would you be able to add me? Historian of science working in images/art and collaborating with artists here.
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Could you add me too, please? Thanks for doing this!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My home institution is now also here, please follow! Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social #art #earlymodern 🗃️ and so much more!
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Marika Keblusek @feinzeit.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
spread the word / vertel het rond: Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700) www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
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2 PhD - NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for 2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Moder...
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Thank you, Liesbeth!!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
We had had a great #VisionLab with the VisualizingtheUnknown team @ubleiden.bsky.social today! They even had a drawing by Anthony van Leeuwenhoek himself 🔬!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Perfect research day @ubleiden.bsky.social !!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Zeker, met plezier!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
A great podcast in which @chrmeijer.bsky.social tells us more about her wonderful research project #BuggingBugs, also #earlymodern 🐜🦟🐛🧪🗃️. www.voxweb.nl/podcast/in-a...
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In a Nutshell, s.2 e.2: Why Are We Afraid of Insects? with Charlotte Meijer - Vox magazine
In the Vox podcast In a Nutshell, hosts Jara Majerus and Antonia Leise take a deep dive into the university's most interesting, strange, and exciting research. Every two weeks, they invite Radboud res...
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Heel leuk initiatief!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy! Wish I could sing with you guys, or at least come an listen…
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
5 days left to apply…👇
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Thanks, @evelynwelch.bsky.social !
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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Here's a starter pack for those interested in medieval and early modern #art 🎨 Let me know if I've missed/forgotten someone, or if you want me to remove you from the list. I hope this is helpful! #medievalsky #earlymodern #histsci #skystorians #arthistory 🗃️ 🏛️ go.bsky.app/PtdynT4
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Www.visualizingtheunknown.com with a few more days (30/09) until the deadline for our postdoc position: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...
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Home - Visualizing the Unknown
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Hello new followers! I am an historian of #earlymodern science and art and I run a research group on Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, and am co-I of Visualizing the Unknown. Interested in everything from visual culture of🔬to observing by drawing. 🗃️🧪🎨
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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Historians near Rome! I'm looking to find a researcher willing to dig about in the Doria Pamphilj archives on my behalf (paid of course) Wildly long shot but putting it out there 🙏 🗃️
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
This is amazing!! Thanks for sharing!
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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
#job! #earlymodern #history #science 2-year postdoctoral position in our project Visualizing the Unknown. Postdoc will be based @Huygens Amsterdam with option to go to Cambridge UK for 6 months! #materiality #visualculture #microscopy🔬Deadline 30/09/24. vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...
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Postdoctoral researcher Visualizing the Unknown - Huygens Instituut
Postdoctoral researcher Visualizing the Unknown - Huygens Instituut
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