JOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Spilled my coffee travel mug in my backpack this morning - can you imagine the horror - so let’s just say some time with these wonderful #earlymodern miniature books was very much needed! 1) Gregorian Calendar (1585) #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜 /1

#HyveMind, who can help with this: I need to insert 30+ images into a Google Document, each with a minimum resolution of 300 DPI. I have found a program with which I can change the DPI to 300, but as soon as I insert that image in GDocs, its dimensions (i.e. width and height) are too big ... 1/

To all male scholars who try to use their seniority to discourage me from continuing my research or presenting on my topic & to problematize my access to sources, because they want to work on the topic themselves after learning about my work: You picked the wrong person. I will not step aside.

JOB : Associate Conservator, Wooden Objects, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY ➡️ metmuseum.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/metmus...

I've been looking forward to this conference on the "Unbekanntes Kirchensilber" for weeks. So excited and grateful I can join via Zoom 🤍 Thanks a million for organizing @zikg.eu #EarlyModern #ArtHistory 🏛️

My rates for transcription are now on my website. joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

An archivist just told me about this great website for German watermarks. Thanks to this website, I was able to identify a watermark on an #EarlyModern archival record and say more about the document's approximate date (which was unknown) 📜 #BookHistory 📚 🗃️ #MedievalSky shorturl.at/neVQ6

The absolutely stunning 15th century frontage to the former White Hart Inn, on the market square in Newark, Nottinghamshire 🤩 More photos and link to the history/architectural development of the building in a short thread below…

*correction: portrait. Not self-portrait. Nevertheless, I think it's marvelous.

And for those who like this as much as I do: in Nuremberg, they sell it as a postcard and bookmark.

My favorite prof, mentor, & committee member Martha Howell wrote a new book & I'm psyched it's out: "Making Merchants. The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany." Undoubtedly of interest to many #SkyStorians on the #Medievalsky & #EarlyModern 🗃️ feeds. l1nq.com/6gxOL

Welcoming the technology on the left with open arms after having spent 4 hours looking at the one on the right (and having aged 50 years in the process). 📜 #HistTech

Does anyone have recommendations on sources concerning South Atlantic ocean currents and navigational routes in the 16th century? I see a lot of maps showing how Europeans got to Brazil, but not the return voyage. #earlymodern #histsci #skystorians

So happy to see this book in print! This project has been such a pleasure La Sfera / The Globe: Cosmology, Science, and Geography by Gregorio Dati, Carrie Benes (Editor), Laura Ingallinella (Editor): Compare Prices on New & Used Copies | ISBN: 9781599104812 - Alibris share.google/is0A9ix9tp27...

But nothing beats the magic of Nuremberg in all its early-morning snow-covered winter glory ❄️ 🤍

Fog-covered Nuremberg on early-morning fall days looks unreal 🍂

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good! 🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️

Historians of science: any thoughts on this? I'm intrigued by a "recipe" in a 1505 manuscript, which describes what appears to be the Leidenfrost effect, named after Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, who supposedly was the first to describe the effect in the 18th century 🗃️ #HistSTM #HistSci #EarlyModern 🧪

I'd be curious to know if anyone has ever found an earlier description of this effect #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

A "recipe" from a 1505 manuscript: "wiltü in hais pech griefn halt die hent wol in kalt wasser je kelt je peser dan grief dorein" ENG: If you want to 'reach into' hot pitch, then hold your hands in cold water - the colder, the better - then reach into it Any volunteers? 😳 #HistSci #EarlyModern 🗃️

I have a meeting with a curator coming up, who just sent me an invitation with the title "Schrauben und anderes" (screws and other things) and this just perfectly captures my life right now 🔩 #HistTech #HistSci #EarlyModern 🗃️

#SkyStorians, I'm looking for #MedievalSky and #EarlyModern paintings, engravings & other visual sources that depict screws. (N.B. I'm not looking for depictions of screws in technical sources on this topic). If anyone has come or comes across them, I'd love to know! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory

It’s real!! I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A friend's applying for a postdoc which expects an extensive publication record. I've seen grad students who focus on publishing over developing their diss & the 1st thing that goes out the window is quality. Why do we glorify & celebrate "productivity" over quality? @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📚 Hybrid book talk of Seth Kimmel's "The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain." 📅 October 22, 2025 🕕 6:15pm EDT 📍Heyman Center, Columbia University & Online More info & registration: sofheyman.org/events/celeb... #HistSci #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #SkyStorians 🗃️

Dear historians, some of you often think about the Roman Empire, but what about the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation? In an article with Tobias Winnerling, we ask where we can find the #HRE in today’s pop culture. What should we not forget? All tips welcome! #earlymodern #medievalsky #history

Good grief. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. #SkyStorians 🗃️ “A holistic view of the relevant evidence points to the opposite conclusion, one which has now been corroborated by AI analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way. [...]”

I would have signed up in a heartbeat if I’d been able to go to Oxford! I’m so envious of anyone who gets to participate.

I wish I could attend. This sounds great! #HistSci #EarlyModern

Thank you everyone for your kindness and support—it means more than I can say! ❤️

To the female prof & others who ridicule my work: You aren't just ridiculing me, you're ridiculing the countless craftspeople & centuries of work it took to develop the screws now holding together the numerous objects with which you build your life. And—as a historian—you should take THAT seriously.

I just had my work publicly ridiculed by a tenured prof. To all senior scholars who need to hear this: Please don't do this to students (or anyone else for that matter). You have no idea how painful it is. Yes, my topic is unusual & you may not get it, but that doesn't mean it should be made fun of.

📚 I cannot keep up with all the interesting books being published lately. Here's another one: "Cultivating & Communicating Natural & Technical Knowledge around 1800. Devotees of Science." By Nikolaj Bijleveld, Arjen Dijkstra, & Samuel Gessner. tinyurl.com/4kr2tssn #HistSci #HistSTM #HistTech 🗃️

Historians of art/metalworking/craft: How would you call this part of an #EarlyModern goblet shown in the pics? (see the original post for the full object). A German conservator described it as "Kranz," though I'm not sure 'crown'/'wreath' works in English. Any thoughts? #SkyStorians

Upcoming (hybrid) book talk of Tunç Şen's "Forgotten Experts. Astrologers, Science, & Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1430-1600." 📅 Monday, September 29, 2025 🕕 6:00pm EDT 📍Columbia University More info & registration: sofheyman.org/events/celeb... #HistSci #HistSTM #MedievalSky #EarlyModern 🗃️

Furniture history! Are you a postdoctoral researcher who'd like to explore and showcase an outstanding collection of 17th-20thC furniture history @universityofleeds.bsky.social by spending approx. 6 weeks (or longer part-time) in our Libraries? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/bedford-fell...

Vacancy: Editor-in-chief💼 JHoK seeks a new co-editor-in-chief affiliated to a Belgian or Dutch institution to join Professor Sven Dupré. Deadline to submit your job application: 26 September, 2025. More information on the application process: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement...

📚NEUERSCHEINUNG📚 Heinrich Wölfflin Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers (1905) Herausgegeben von Tristan Weddigen, Oskar Bätschmann, Joris van Gastel Heinrich Wölfflin – Gesammelte Werke, Schriften, Bd. 6 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/de/pub/woelf... 🛒 schwabe.ch/heinrich-woe...

There’s a great series of webinars about the preservation of newspapers currently underway by @britishlibrary.bsky.social Endangered Archives programme. Last week was a lovely succinct intro to the history & manufacture of newspapers, feat. the odd clip like this: youtu.be/wZV11BplbXw?...

“you can’t do anything to a listed building, ever!” okay, counterpoint, you can hoist a 700 year old church tower up 16metres in the air to build a new subterranean basement for an office block

New book (2023) by Rienk Vermij 📚 "A History of Western Science. The Basics," offering "a short introduction to the history of Western science that is accessible to all through avoiding technical language and mathematical intricacies." #HistSci #HistSTM #SkyStorians #EarlyModern 🗃️ shorturl.at/oPHmW

Whenever Mersenne comes up, I always think about his letter to Christiaan Huygens from 1647 in which he apologizes for the length of his letter & "even more for my poor handwriting," recommending Huygens to turn to his father for help with transcribing his chicken scratch 😂 #HistSci 🗃️

An die Deutsch-Muttersprachler: Wie nennt man dieses Werkzeug ('vice' auf Englisch) heutzutage auf Deutsch? Mir wurde kürzlich, ohne weitere Erklärung, gesagt: „Schraubstock“ stimmt nicht, oder ist unüblich. Gibt es ein anderes, gebräuchlicheres Wort für dieses Werkzeug? #HistTech

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

From 1454 the St. Sebaldus was flanked by the magnificent "Alte Schau" where gold & silversmiths had their wares checked—referenced in its facade & visualized by Ritter. My heart aches knowing it was torn down in 1809, replaced w/ a guard house & then a "Bratwursthäusle" #HistSci #EarlyModern 🗃️