They’re trying to get us to be enthousiastic about AI - BUT WE DONT EVEN HAVE WORKING PRINTERS YET. I WANT A PRINTER THAT PRINTS WHEN I HIT THE PRINT BUTTON, I don’t want AI to predict when I will need new shoelaces, based on my search history for medieval paintings. ALL I WANT A WORKING PRINTER.
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A group of women, Amazons, are fighting a group of armed men. This image was printed in 1550, in sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae universalis, vol. 6.
Fear the well-dressed Amazons!
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That’s a good question!
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Something happened between 1440 and 1550…
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That would be great!
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🐘
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A classic read!
05.03.2026 12:54 —
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a printed elephant.
As you can see, the elephant's trunk is functioning as a text absorber. Emptying early modern books was a main function of elephants back then, #bookhistory
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And that’s more than correct to do so!
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Will start referring to Elephant power from now.
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#envhist
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Schreibkalender mit Eintragungen sind einzigartige Quellen für sehr viele andere Forschungsfelder, insbesondere für klima- und umwelthistorische Forschungen.
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That’s true
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Mit dem Tagungsband nähern wir uns Notationen, Notizen, Inskriptionen, Eintragungen, Zeichnungen sowie Kritzeleien – und all dies fassen wir in diesem Band unter dem Begriff „Handschrift“: also alles mit einer menschlichen Hand graphisch sinnhaft fixierte.
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Von den bisher bekannten rund 18.000 Schreibkalender-Exemplaren konnten wir rund 7.600 Kalender identifizieren, die handschriftliche Eintragungen tragen. Alle diese Eintragungen und Kalender sind in der Datenbank recherchierbar.
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It is likely Andalusian paper, distributed via Paris. The paper flows started in this time. bsky.app/profile/dbel...
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On a more textual level, the elephant and the plow are moving into the existing text, making way for new ideas and letters to grow in the future …
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Yep, they all did. I wrote a chapter about this, called the recycling: media echoes.
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#earlymodern 🐘 in action.
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For good reasons!
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A printed page from the mentioned book showing a field working men (in India), working a plow with an elephant.
And here is the page from Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographiae uniuersalisin" (Lib. VI) in full glory, #skystorians. 🐘
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A man working a plow in a field - carried by a small elephant. This detail is from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae uniuersalis, vol. 6, 1550.
In 1550, one Elephant Power (EP) was the equivalent of 10 Horse Power (HP).
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Likely, yes.
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Zum Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis – Verbrecher Verlag
Zum Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis
Der Ausschluss der Buchhandlungen Golden Shop, Rote Straße und Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel aus unbekannten Gründen hat den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis und seine Jury schwer beschädigt.
Hier unseren Erklärung dazu: www.verbrecherverlag.de/zum-deutsche...
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#skystorians
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This period will end eventually, so let's enjoy it while it lasts. #academicchatter
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For a short time in history, academics engaged in a mashup of everyday commenting and 'real' academic work. We called it the social media period of academia.
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I like the idea of a University of Bluesky in the sense that many of us are part of a virtual res publica litteraria these days. I haven't (and likely won't) meet all of you in person ever, but I read your research, hints, comments, problems, and puns, even your bad jokes.
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