Daniel Bellingradt

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.

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!

That’s a good question!

Something happened between 1440 and 1550…

That would be great!

🐘

A classic read!

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

And that’s more than correct to do so!

Will start referring to Elephant power from now.

#envhist

Schreibkalender mit Eintragungen sind einzigartige Quellen für sehr viele andere Forschungsfelder, insbesondere für klima- und umwelthistorische Forschungen.

That’s true

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.

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.

Der Tagungsband zu handschriftlichen Einträgen in frühneuzeitlichen Schreibkalendern baut u.a. auf einer DFG-geförderten Datenbank auf, die frei nutzbar ist:

schreibkalender.wisski.data.fau.de

It is likely Andalusian paper, distributed via Paris. The paper flows started in this time. bsky.app/profile/dbel...

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 …

Yep, they all did. I wrote a chapter about this, called the recycling: media echoes.

#earlymodern 🐘 in action.

For good reasons!

Here you go: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb0...

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. 🐘

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).

Likely, yes.

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#skystorians

This period will end eventually, so let's enjoy it while it lasts. #academicchatter

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.

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.