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Average description of the fixation of tinctures c.17thc
AI has so many implications to the death of the Real, but I can't really think about that right now
how can such terrifying times produce such boring discourse
RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved posting a thread 🧵🧵🧵 (1/95)
A big physical copy of “The Works of …Glauber…” by Christopher Packe.
Spent my morning looking at some of the first english translations of Johann Glauber’s philosophical works from 1689
Just a reminder... Tomorrow, 5 March, 5.30 pm ✨ Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social ,
and Michael Powell Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social speaking on "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" Sign-up in person & online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The first Heidelberg tun built 1591. Perhaps the largest early modern #wine barrel? (BM)
Please share the news: the first week is given in English, the second in French (but it's possible to follow both, of course)
#earlymodern #skystorians
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
A reassessment of Quentin Skinner's classic paper on its 50th anniversary, drawn from a @britishacademy.bsky.social conference - Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond, edited by @adrianblau.bsky.social & open access at www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Make it stop!
#earlymodern talk tomorrow - hybrid and in person with @kyamamoto.bsky.social 🗃️
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
Tourist by Sonia Feldman #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
A beautiful if outdated book
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
A weird looking "cat", thin and with babies on its back.
A 🧵 of 4-legged animals in sixteenth-century prints, including 🦊 🐕 🦒 🐈⬛ and a 🦄 . #skystorians
Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️
What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images?
(free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)?
Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org
Donning my purple gloves to say happy birthday to our 1000-year-old astrolabe #histsci 📜
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
This all natural solution is helping millions quit
We have to return to tradition (tarot)
It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*
“I asked chatgtp”— i asked the cards and they perfectly described the situation
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
If this isn’t a sign to return to in person pen and paper everything I don’t know what is