COSMOPOET

A casual walk in Ghent and bam! - an armillary sphere ! 🤩🌌💫 @cosmopoet.bsky.social

My heartfelt thanks to the first Cosmopoets: Valeria Annunziata; Maggy Arco, Floris Bernard; Paula Caballero Sánchez; Matthieu Husson; Agathe Keller; Anuj Misra; Giulia Maria Paoletti; Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas; Wim Verbaal! ✨✨

The first step in this direction is the source-based workshop "Teaching the Cosmos in Premodern Poetry and Prose: Methodologies from Literary Studies and the History of Science": event.ugent.be/registration...

One initiative that I hope will start now and continue beyond is the building of a community interested in proposing methods for approaching the complex source corpora COSMOPOET sheds light on.

🧵🧵The first year of COSMOPOET is now over, and while another year remains, it is already clear that cosmopoetics and the role of poetry and verse in the astral sciences are a large iceberg and we are only seeing its tip for now.

This is a wonderful moment of preparation of the upcoming EIDA workshop. I am most grateful for this support, and look very much forward to see the instruments in action! (Even if, as a consequence, we figure out that we got it all wrong with our reconstruction of this arcane instrument…)

It is a Saturday and what better activity than building planicelia together with @sgessner.bsky.social and Florence Somer in preparation for Celestial Scripts on Monday!

#scientiae2025 ends with a rare visit to the Istanbul university observatory. A telescope that takes a record of the solar spots each they for more than 20000 consecutive days - an impressive tradition and continuity 🤩

Second paper for this morning: Gaye Danisan's wonderful project on Ottoman paper instruments #scientiae2025

Book and Instruments chained side by side in the Biblioteca Laurenziana.

How wonderful to start the day with Samuel Gessner's call to take and to study the instruments preserved in libraries seriously 🤩 #scientiae2025

Astrolabes greet us in the metro already🤩

Scientiae 2025: Istanbul, 16-19 September, Annual Conference The 2025 annual meeting of Scientiae will be held in Istanbul from 16 to 19 September 2025 in collaboration with the Department of the History of Science at Istanbul University. Situated at the intell...

The vacation is now over and autumn has arrived in Ghent, which is why next week COSMOPOET is travelling south to Istanbul for the annual Scientiae conference (eventedebiyat.istanbul.edu.tr/event/2/page...) and the Celestial Scripts workshop (ifea-istanbul.net/evenements/w...) 🤓😎💫!

1932. Federico García Lorca plays The Shadow. How about the lunar-phases-adjacent starry sky diagram behind🤩

I guess a bsky post is too short to answer and the answer is still in the making, as it were, but for now what I can suggest is having a look at the material Inma and I put together in this rather long book chapter: brill.com/display/book...

And obviously, for me the most attractive topic was the "establishment of curricula" and this is what I will try to talk about, specifically about the place of Aratos' Phaenomena, Kleomedes' The Heavens, and Dionysios Periegetes' Description of the Known World in late #Byzantine schools.

I do think it is a great program (I only know and have listened to Pouyan before so I am really looking forward to meeting everyone) & this is why I am pressing on just before the summer collapse. I will try to post some updates as there will be no hybrid mode (something I am actually happy about).

The final conference before the summer: "Non-expert dealings with science in the ancient and pre-modern Mediterranean" at the University of Barcelona. I am very tired by now but this one I really didn't want to miss: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/su...

And here are some mementos from a day of theoretical codicology, Byzantine studies and history of education

The next stop for Cosmopoet brings us back to Gent and a Saturday workshop organised by the MELA project on "Teaching and Learning Greek in Byzantium 3: Towards a Diachronic Codicology of Composite Manuscripts": event.ugent.be/registration...

Neophytos the Recluse, the Monk Gabriel, Máximos Planudes: manuscripts, authors and Byzantinists and the beautiful Edinburgh! Huge thanks to the organisers and to both libraries: @natlibscot.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh's Main Library!

'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation' This workshop takes its cue from two authorial/autograph manuscripts in Edinburgh’s small but fine collection of medieval Greek (Byzantine) manuscripts.

The penultimate stop on COSMOPOET's tour before the summer: Edinburgh and a workshop on 'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation'. More details and the program are available here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

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

Group examining Greek manuscript

Now with Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social on Byzantine manuscripts, and here with her (all time?) favorite, an example with many texts in one codex - a library in one volume, with several quadrivial works, but also theological and geomantic

Matthieu Husson and Alexandre Tur at BnF Richelieu

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...

2025: Training week: A global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: new approaches, new digital tools org.  Matthieu Husson (LTE, PSL-Observatoire de Paris), Alexandre Tur (BnF), Anuj Misra (MPIWG, Berlin, Forschungsgruppe ASTRA) Dates  June, 2- June 6, 2025 Places Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ob...

The next stop on the tour starts tomorrow: eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/t... A great team, a great opportunity to collaborate with the @labnf.bsky.social and @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social and an important and invaluable possibility to teach with historical manuscripts and instruments!🤩😍

Speaking about the palaeography and codicology + diagrams!! for the first time! I realise I can do this and well. Many thanks to the Crash Course in Greek Palaeography organisers for adding me to the team and to KBR for the opportunity to spend a day in the company of the manuscripts I love so much!

Good point! I have, of course, chosen a very nice 13thC Kleomedes ms for the display moment 😎