Hannah Wiepke

Ugh! I’m sorry to hear that happened. Sending you a big hug!

It’s from Bauhin!

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This week is the 2025 Rutherford Aris Memorial Lecture!

Join us on Thursday (3/27) for a lecture entitled “Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter” by Jana Dambrogio (Thomas F. Peterson (1957) Conservator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries).

Headed to Boston for #RSA2025. Hope to see you at our panel sponsored by The Newberry Library! “Archiving the Body in Early Modern Illustrated Books and Albums” rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee...

Snow day research assistant 😊

I need to discuss later!

Image: Printed concertina-fold calendar (England, 1538). From the British Library Collection: C.41.a.28

Our first blog post for Unfolding Time is live! 📖

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Join Kathleen Doyle as she guides readers through the two printed concertina-fold calendars from @britishlibrary.bsky.social in the exhibition, explaining them part by part. 🕰📜

Any suggestions for 17th c. France? Looking for something introductory

Thank you so much!!!

Thank you! I also have Aaron’s book on my list already. I’ll check the others out!

@ebwood.bsky.social would love suggestions for em spain!

Planning to use @periodeye.bsky.social’s book “The First Viral Images”

Excited for my summer course! Please send me your suggestions for books/articles that consider the Baroque in a global focus!

Please join us this Thursday (2/6) for a lecture by Dr. Rachel Kreiter (Curator, Vanderbilt University Art Gallery). Dr. Kreiter’s lecture is part of our collaborative work with the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Religions & Cultures and their “Future of the Past” lab.

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Unlocking history one clasp at a time! 📚 My collection of early modern book clasps showcases craftsmanship from the Low Countries and Central Europe. A glimpse into the art and function of historical bookbinding. #BookHistory #RareBooks #BindingClasps

Please join us this Friday (1/31) for our first event of the semester! Join us online or in-person. 🔗 to register for Zoom in bio.
@lollardfish.bsky.social

a black and white drawing of a brain with the words `` loading '' written on it . ALT: a black and white drawing of a brain with the words `` loading '' written on it .

Tips for writer’s block?

Also look at Panofsky!

Two biscuits stacked on top of one another, designed to look like a rotating diagram from an early modern astronomical book. The lower biscuit is circular and features a series of horizontal lines and tiny numbers in an early modern font. The top biscuit is roughly in the shape of boat: the 'mast' area reads 'zenith'; the main body of the shape features tiny figures in historical dress holding astronomical instruments and a Latin motto reading 'Nulla dies sine linea'.

Centuries ago, many astronomical books included moving parts to help readers interpret the world around them.

This biscuit recreates a diagram from Sacrobosco’s ‘De Sphaera’ (c.1550). It could be used to calculate the changing length of daylight hours through the year. 🍪

My favorite!

Woodcut diagram with tumbling baby cupids and dotted lines in inverted double V

aBABYcus?

Measurements gone Renaissance emblematically weird! From a 1609 German book at #NewberryLibrary!
#WyrdWednesday #WoodcutWednesday

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Hello #AcademicSky I’m excited to see old and new friends here!
I’m Hannah and I love all things early modern print and book history. My diss focuses on the development of “science” in the EM pd & how books were actively used as tools of knowledge making. #academicchatter

Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Art historian: the cup’s meaning in society can be discerned by examining closely its material, form, and relation to other objects, alongside attentiveness to the discursive function of the cup in contemporary texts.