On 22 September, 2023, the Biblioteca do Palácio da Ajuda hosted the lecture "Cosmologies old and new: early modern transformations in scientific and philosophical thought"with H Darrel Rutkin from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

This thursday we will have the first Helena Avelar Seminar of this academic year. Samuel Gessner talks about eclipses in the Middle Ages (in Portuguese): ciuhct.org/agenda/eclipse… @FC_UL CIUHCT

The Astra Project team at the 7th National meeting on the history of science and technology (University of Évora). Luis Ribeiro Eunice Santos Carolina Resende

For those who could not attend the Helena Avelar Seminar, last lecture’s video is now online (English): youtu.be/moqS9y3dFKI CIUHCT

By invitation of my colleague Eleonora Andriani Eleonora Andriani I will be a lecture in the The workshop 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞́𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬, on 𝐃𝐞𝐜 𝟏𝟑th. IRHT CIUHCT Astra project

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being at the presentation of Charles Burnett’s Festschrift book at the UCL written and organised by his former PhD students. A wonderful tribute to a great man and academic who I had the honour of being one of my supervisors.

Tomorrow in the Helena Avelar Seminar Marta Passadeiras will discuss “Heavenly Knowledge: Astrology Books in Religious Libraries” CIÊNCIAS ULisboa C8, room 8.2.17.

For those who missed the previous lectures, you can find them online: - Forecasting the Future in Seventeenth-Century Portugal: youtu.be/a8rxp_xtxaI - Medieval Arabic translations of Ptolemy's Almagest: youtu.be/hqJCR5IXipo

Tomorrow I will lecture CIÊNCIAS ULisboa opening the CIUHCT lectures 2024 with some of my latest research made in the context of the RUTTER ERC Project project.

A new paper by Francisco Malta Romeiras and me has just been published. It is an account of astrological practices in Early Modern Portugal offering a first view of their clients, education, and books! brill.com/view/journals/…

Another great lecture by Francisco Malta Romeiras at the Helena Avelar Seminar on Inquisition and Astrology. Soon available at the seminar’s YouTube (in Portuguese). CIUHCT CIÊNCIAS ULisboa

Join us for the third session of the Seminar Series «La pratique des sciences astrales: approches philologiques». Mathieu Ossendrijver will introduce two philological and digital projects which are underway in the ERC project ZODIAC. #HistoryofScience cristina

Now available at the Astra Project channel, the video of Exploring elections and interrogations through the Liber introductorius of Michael Scot - Seminar: PALÉOGRAPHIE DES MANUSCRITS ASTRONOMIQUES ET ASTROLOGIQUES, org. by Eleonora Andriani. Link: youtu.be/WC1c8bWqRgY

After a long pause I am happy to announce a new episode of the Ad Astra podcast. In episode 59 I speak with researcher Sergio Orozco-Echeverri, from the Universidad de Antioquia about Reportorios, an early modern form of almanac in the Iberian world: youtu.be/Ev6PI_vpIV4

🚨Attention! NEW Zoom link HERE: tinyurl.com/ydpvhrkz #Astrology and the #AstrolabeCom Stephen Johnston (History of Science Museum, University of Oxford) [Online] Today @ 6pm (GMT+1)

The latest Helena Avelar Seminar video is now online. An excellent lecture on the use of the astrolabes in astrological practice by Stephen Johnston Stephen Johnston, Senior Research Curator at the History of Science Museum, University of Oxford History of Science Museum – youtu.be/o2EncsC4vY0

Four years ago, in August 2020, in the midst of lockdowns, we started the Ad Astra Podcast to keep the project active. Recorded a year ago, I’m glad to present the 60th episode with Professor Steven Vanden Broecke: youtu.be/u0w5bx76ukM

Recently, I was invited to The ISCSD Book Talk ISCSD to discuss my book, “Jesuit Astrology.” I thank Dr Gang Li and Professor Michael Lackner for the invitation, as well as Jeffrey Kotyk and Francisco Malta Romeiras for their comments: youtu.be/GPB9RcJaEOo

Is #astrology universal? Luís Ribeiro explores the relationship between #cosmology and #MaritimeExpansion in the #EarlyModern period in his paper published in The British Journal for the History of Science. doi.org/10.1017/S00070… #history #histsci #globalization #Ptolemy

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…