Something a bit different today: an example of the remarkable output of the 14th century cartographer–priest Opicinus de Canistris. #manuscripts #diagrams #mysticism

[New Book] Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance – Editors: Christoph Lüthy & Elena Nicoli (Radboud University) Publisher: Brill, 2022 The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural ev[...] #histsci #histmed ➡ renascimed.hcommons.org/?p=1438

Save the date! The next Material Text Research Forum seminar (our sixth!) is coming up on 10 May 2023 ✨ More info forthcoming! 📚🌍⚔️We'll be on Zoom as usual - signups will open soon!

#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚🌞🌍 Excerpts from Thomas Salusbury’s #17thCentury edition of works by #Galileo (born 15 Feb 1564) #HistSci Collections University of Oklahoma Libraries bit.ly/3xnozgz #HistAstro

Mon 20 Feb: Aino Liira & Matti Peikola will give a public lecture (in Finnish) on visual chronology in Early Modern English books [forthcoming study by Liira, Peikola, Kaartinen]. // EModGraL-tutkimuksesta suomeksi TUCEMEMS:n yleisöluentosarjassa ⬇️

Check the new website of my research project on #Repertorios in ratiotemporis.com The project tracks the production and uses of #astronomy #astrology #medicine #geography through the early modern Iberian-American world and Europe by using #digitalhumanities #histsci

A beautiful platform debut from @MuseoGalileo, with amazing #IIIF support on all the critical #LeonardoDaVinci source materials! #HistSci

Working on diagrams and lines of thought today and 😍 The significance of stem, branch, leaf, root and light source is fascinating...

#CFP deadline approaching. Send your abstracts for our #hybrid conference, ‘Historical Fragments: Making, Breaking, and Remaking’, to [email protected] by 15 March!

A new interview in our blog! Read what Janne Skaffari is working on: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

Maria Merian was born #OTD in 1647. #Artist, entomologist, #HERper & traveller. Her #book on insects of Surinam is one of our favourites & we often feature it in our tweets. Our #blog looks at her interest in herpetology : zsl.org/news-and-event… #sciart #WomensArt #WomenInSTEM

Material text seminar VI on May 10, 2023 - With @JohannaSkurnik (U Helsinki), Noah Millstone (U Birmingham), and Antti Ijäs (U Helsinki) For details & registration, go see blogit.utu.fi/materialtext/

Our team is ready for #icehl22! Catch a preview of Turun yliopisto - University of Turku English dept papers in our blog: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

To celebrate the start of the autumn term, we have a new blog entry by a guest author! Saara Kaltiomaa writes about analysing the Zodiac Man figure in her MA thesis: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

THE LISA JARDINE GRANT Deadline 28 September 2023 The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme encourages junior researchers in the humanities and arts to seek to expand their interests in history of science and related interdisciplinary studies royalsociety.org/grants-schemes…

Our project has reached the halfway milestone! Read more in our blog: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

New guest author entry in our blog! Elina Parkkila writes about graphical content in 18th century grammars and her MA thesis experience: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

Exciting news! Our team-authored article on classifying graphic devices in #earlymodern printed books has been published! doi.org/10.1080/003932… (OA!)

Save the date and please share with an interested colleague! We will organise an international conference 'Reading visual devices in early books' in Turku, Finland, May 15-17 2025. #visualbookconf More information: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/event…

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