& my own: “Celestial Science and Practical Knowledge: Everyday uses of Calendars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth” #skystorians #emhistory #history #hismed
23.09.2025 12:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Titles of our presentations.
Luís: “How it shall speed? Astrological Practices in Early Modern Nautical Culture”
Tuna: “A ‘Pathology’ of Prognostications: Courtly politics of Medical Astrology in Ottoman Istanbul in the late 17th Century”
23.09.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Last week in Istanbul with @ulastuna.bsky.social and @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social after our panel at Scientiae2025 “Prognostication, fortune, and risk: How people navigated material fortunes through almanacs and astrological consulations in the e.m world.” Thank you both and Scientiae organisers!
23.09.2025 12:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
@eui-history.bsky.social
12.09.2025 12:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Will be going to this!
12.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social @extispex.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks #earlymodern #history #historyofmedicine #astrology
12.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me
12.09.2025 12:01 — 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
Tomorrow (21 May 15:00-16:00 Florence time) is our final session of casebooks therapy for this academic year. If you’d like to join dm me for the zoom link! #skystorians #casebooks #astronomy #astrology @laurenkassell.bsky.social
20.05.2025 09:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happening later this week -- Kepler, Kircher, Grynaeus, Bruno, and more: 😃 👇 #earlymodern #histsci
13.05.2025 18:39 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to see my review of @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social’s book, Jesuit Astrology, to be out in the JHA today. Congratulations again, Luís! #skystorians #astronomy #astrology
13.05.2025 18:50 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Of course. There’s also Ann Geneva’s book, i can’t remember if she looks at cases @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social any others?
25.04.2025 14:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sue Ward's Traditional Astrology – Traditional Astrology teaching and research
Sue Ward just brought out the first of three volumes on Lilly’s public and private writings! Here’s the link: sue-ward.co.uk
25.04.2025 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
Stone III
Online workshop Friday, 25th April, 10-11.30am Boston/ 3-4.30pm London/ 4-5.30pm Paris Register for the zoom meeting here. Presenters: Beatrice Barbara Anne Bottomley, Research fellow, Department of P...
Today (25 April), I’m joining the Writing Technologies team for an informal workshop to chat about the properties of stones in a medieval Arabic handbook of recipes for remedies and wonders by the 13th alchemist al-ʿIrāqī, and my tentative steps into thinking about stones and generation 💎
25.04.2025 07:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
How did #almanacs provide orientation for a "New World"? I'll be talking about Spanish-American almanacs in this fantastic workshop in Fribourg, Switzerland organised by Vitus Huber. If you are interested in #earlymodern uses of #time take a look at the programme #histsci
23.04.2025 19:58 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Heading to Fribourg🇨🇭in mid-May for a phenomenal seminar on time and writing in early modern almanacs, organised by Vitus Huber. Another chance to revisit my PhD dissertation (2018), where I first developed and introduced archaeology of care as an interpretative method.
24.04.2025 14:23 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Emotional Persuasion in Early Modern Science: Vernacular and Neo-Latin Perspectives
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Emotion in Early Modern Science?
Join us for a 2-day conference at the Warburg Institute exploring how Kepler, Kircher, and Boyle used pathos, praise & wonder in their scientific writing.
📅 15–16 May
🎟️ Free (in person or online)
24.04.2025 10:28 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Very much looking forward to this symposium next month organised by Vitus Huber! Writing-calendar galore ✍️
16.04.2025 10:59 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier. Thanks to @jakubochocinski.bsky.social for organising. dm or email him
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social
14.04.2025 13:33 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Our next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday!
14.04.2025 11:40 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Some news!
I am writing a book about everyday bewitchment using, among other records, Napier's casebooks, which I spent four years transcribing.
I want to move away from sensationalist narratives.
I am super glad to have met Fabienne who is amazing.
I've had a can of Red Bull to celebrate.
26.03.2025 16:30 — 👍 146 🔁 10 💬 30 📌 3
Manuscript image of the quoted text (CASE63427 in the online edition).
#otd 1627 Napier records a visit by 'on[e] Mr Eastworth a yorkesheerman' who 'should have broght me Mres Kays letter for the taking of physick against melanch[oly] but forgot it & the token of gold in it & left it behind him in yorke sheere'. He 'will send it if he can'.
17.03.2025 14:05 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier dm or email me for the zoom link
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social
17.03.2025 12:46 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Historian of Science interested in the history of astronomy and its material culture @ University of Pittsburgh/ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
https://olivia.science
assistant professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Professor; University of Exeter; Historian of Science and Medicine in Premodern Islamic Societies; Love Urdu poetry
COSMOPOET is MSCA PF research project by Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social. It is funded by the European Union and hosted by Ghent University. COSMOPOET aims to rethink the relationship between poetry and astronomy in the space of late Byzantine schools.
New here. Fledgling historian studying Early Modern British health and culture. Reposting = commonplacing. Obstinate headstrong girl.
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Professor of History; author of Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; journal co-editor; #highered consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer, cocktail enthusiast; madrileña at heart
email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
Historian. Research interests include the history of book, history of knowledge, university history, and digital history. https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/113201
Historian of information, libraries, media and books.
Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
#Householdoptics #experimentalknowledge #generationalcraft #VictorianBritain
# Manuscripts with too many margins, archives with too much air.
# Secretly tracing a wild Warburgian in inter-war Britain 🤫
Preparing PhD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8426-8121
A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Sr Acq Editor, Early Modern Studies, Amsterdam University Press. Comm Editor, Art History, Lund Humphries. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Grandfather Anti racist/fascist Marxist Psychotherapist, Cosmology and Astronomy ,Writer Philosopher Pagan European Cllr Eco Socialist United Ireland indy Wales and Scotland free Palestine [he,him, his] Republican political/cultural astrologer
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, @hpsleeds.bsky.social. Fellow of Darwin College, Formerly Cambridge HPS. History of the life sciences and communication.
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/staff/9660/dr-edwin-rose
