Los profesores Oscar Gallo, David Zuluaga y yo coeditamos este libro. Acaba de publicarse en el sello editorial del Archivo General de la Nación de República Dominicana.

📌 CFPs for a special issue of the journal Physis: “Food Matters: Knowledge, Ecologies, Circulation and Health in the European World, 1500–1900” Lavinia Maddaluno

New book! #Rutters and logbooks were more than navigation aids: they shaped #cartography, law, science and Europe’s global expansion. Essential reading on how #oceans connected the #EarlyModern world. Available at: rutter-project.org/wp-content/upl… #MaritimeHistory #GlobalHistory #histsci

📚 "Dioscórides ante el mundo. Usos plurales de un "libro-laboratorio" en la Edad Moderna", editado por Elisa Andretta y José Pardo-Tomás (2025, Estudios sobre la ciencia, Editorial CSIC) El libro puede descargarse de forma gratuita aquí: libros.csic.es/product_info.p…

How did early modern students record knowledge, play chess across cultures, and shape intellectual history? Our team shared insights at Scientiae 2025 in Istanbul! 🌍📚 Full recap 👉 facebook.com/ERC.KnowStuden…

I am glad to share that my doctoral thesis is now publicly available. You can download it from dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstre…

This Thursday I will be presenting at I Tatti my project on #Almanacs for a New World. I’m exploring how almanacs were places of negotiation between classical traditions, ‘new sciences’ and everyday life in the New World. Join via Zoom #histsci itatti.harvard.edu/event/term-fel…

Today, at 16:00 CET, I'll be talking about how #almanacs were used and adapted to understand and shape the New World. Join via Zoom. #histsci #histmed #astrology #environmentalhumanities itatti.harvard.edu/event/term-fel…

Indiana Jones is a fantasy about being a professor with no admin duties

📢CFP: THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRANCISCO SUÁREZ The University of Groningen will be hosting a workshop on the philosophy of Francisco Suárez, 10-11 April 2026. Send an abstract by December 1st to the organizers, M. Rozemond and Han Thomas Adriaenssen #histphilo #suarez #scholasticism

How can we gain #environmental knowledge about places we have never visited? How should we explain phenomena that ancient authorities neither recorded nor even imagined? I’ll be speaking about this next Monday in Milan, at a workshop kindly organised by Fabrizio Baldassarri

Today!

Incredible start of the research project of Fabrizio Baldassarri with a quite interdisciplinary workshop on practitioners, rustics, and the production of environmental knowledge

Such a necessary book to clarify actual historical questions concerning #longitude—a topic that has been misleadingly presented as an English question, when in fact it has a long history and considerable developments with navigation in Early Modern Portugal. #Histsci

#ConEnvHist #Indiscreto An essay about the relationship between plant intelligence and ecology, and how the history of plant studies impacts environmental policy and political decisions #histplants #plantintelligence #ecology #environment Fabrizio Baldassarri indiscreto.org/lintelligenza-…