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From the Jagiellonian University archive, fittingly for the total solar eclipse in Aries exact this evening 19:21 (GMT+1)… ‘On eclipses’ sections from early modern calendars printed in Kraków. First is for 1670. Second 1671. Both by Mikołaj Brożek.

Say hello to Zodiac Man. This tradition of illustration was used as a tool — throughout the medieval and renaissance period — to show which astrological sign was linked to which body part. More here in our latest post: buff.ly/3fQFGhB

Casebooks therapy is back! Excited to be organising this monthly workshop with Lauren Kassell. We’ll be reading selected cases using the digital edition Casebooks Project. Dm or email me for the zoom link History at EUI

Thank you jakubochocinski.bsky.social for organising the first session of #casebookstherapy Casebooks Project. Thank you Philippa Carter Jo Luis Ribeiro and everyone else for coming along. Newcomers always welcome.

Thanks very much Stanford in Florence for having me yesterday for your Thursday lunchtime talks. Lots of fun talking about observations of weather and life-writing in calendars, print, and prognostication in early modern Poland-Lithuania!

Very much looking forward to this. Programme is in the link!

Next session of Casebooks Therapy is this Thursday 21 November 15:00-16:00 Florence time on zoom

Casebooks Therapy continues this Wednesday on zoom!

🎉 Excited to share the flyer for the study day 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐮𝐬 𝐞<𝐬>𝐭 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐬 (14 Feb 2025). Explore medieval textual practices in Astral Sciences!📷 Full details & abstracts: irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/jour…… #HistoryofAstralSciences #Philology IRHT

First time seeing Polish in Arabic script

Thrilled to see this out in Isis Journal! It tells the (timely) story of the #knowledge hierarchies embedded in #mineral exploration by examining the interplay between #books, #experts, and untrained #officials in #Renaissance #Tuscany. More here 👇 shorturl.at/8p7rG

My latest paper “Is astrology universal? Early modern globalization and the disruption of traditional knowledge” was just published on the BJHS Editor from research made for RUTTER ERC Project It explores the impact of Early Modern globalization on astrology: doi.org/10.1017/S00070…

My new paper on the astronomy-geographical discussion on the New World produced under the umbrella of the RUTTER ERC Project: estudiosamericanos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estu… CIUHCT