Intellectual Networks and Early Modern Knowledge Communities
For the MEMS – Medieval and Early Modern Studies Festival, the University of Kent has organized a session on Intellectual Networks and Early Modern Knowledge Communities: Understanding Early Modern Colonial […]
Global Digital History of Science Festival
The Global Digital History of Science Festival is a five-day online celebration run by the BSHS – British Society for the History of Science featuring talks, discussions, workshops, performances, discussions, […]
ESHS – Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science
Because of the current pandemic it is no longer possible to hold the 9th ESHS Conference (European Society for the History of Science) live in Bologna, the Organizing and Scientific […]
Flotsam: Writing the History of Objects Travelling without Texts
Virtual seminar at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History. Speaker: Beate Fricke. The celestial globe displays the sky, the silver dots indicate the stars, the engraved […]
Constellations Exhibition Launch and Guided Tour
If the library is the cosmos, and books are the stars that fill it, then readers are celestial observers. Like ancient astronomers gazing at the sky, early modern readers created […]
Translucency in 15th-Century Printed Astronomical Texts
For its Work in Progress Seminar Series, the Warburg Institute will host Rheagan Martin (Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow) on “Seeing Through: The Possibility of Translucency in Fifteenth-Century Printed Astronomical […]
Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Oxford
The Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World online lecture series (History of Science Museum, University of Oxford) is created in partnership with the HSMT Centre and […]
The History of Astronomy in the Americas
For the launch of the Constellations digital exhibition, the JCB Library (Providence, Rhode Island) will hold a virtual roundtable entitled “What are we talking about when we talk about the […]
Las constelaciones revisitadas
For the launch of the Constellations digital exhibition, the JCB Library (Providence, Rhode Island) will hold a virtual roundtable entitled “Las constelaciones revisitadas”. Join Berenice Alcántara (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, Mexico), Tayra […]
John Greaves’s Marginalia
The Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth Century Oxford project will host its first workshop on John Greaves’s marginalia. This project (University of Oxford) aims to analyse the Arabic and […]