📖Pubblicato nella nostra collana Biblioteca di Galilaeana "Galileo lettore di Copernico" di Anna De Pace. Il volume mette in evidenza la relazione dello scienziato toscano con Copernico, che egli omaggiava come proprio “maestro”. olschki.it/libro/97888222… Olschki Editore

📌Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit scholar and polymath, died #OnThisDay in 1680. He authored more than two thousand works on subjects ranging from heavenly bodies to acoustics; from museum studies to botany; from mathematics to music. 👉 bit.ly/MG_Corresponda… #histsci

Ci mancate!!! Vogliamo tornare nei musei e nelle biblioteche!

Tsk tsk...people! Weekends are weekends...you should never assume you are the important people in anybody’s life. Let alone a colleague’s!

Very...cool!

Red hot from the press! 😉

Santa keeps giving you great things to read: this is even open access!

📢 È uscito il fascicolo 2020 (Anno XVII) di #Galilæana, la rivista volta ad approfondire lo studio di tutti gli aspetti connessi alla figura, alla vita, all'opera, alle acquisizioni scientifiche e alla fortuna di #Galileo. Edita e distribuita da Olschki Editore

Festive reading!

More festive reading!

Cominciamo l'anno nuovo con una bella notizia: a partire dal 7 gennaio riapriranno biblioteca e fototeca; il sistema di prenotazione sarà attivato stasera alle ore 22. Tutte le modalità d'accesso sono disponibili sul nostro sito: biblhertz.it/it/riapertura

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Only two weeks away...! Please RT!

Today at 1pm: A natural history of evil talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/156… #histsci

⏰ Pronti al cambio dell'ora? Stanotte le lancette dovranno essere spostate dalle 2 alle 3 🕑 ▶️ 🕒 ... Menomale che i nostri orologi rimangono fermi ... 😝 Questa è la nostra bellissima collezione Ruscitti 👇 catalogo.museogalileo.it/sezione/Orolog…

June 17 and 18, Cartesian Physics and their reception --- I will discuss something on the study of human nature in connection with Descartes's early physics, that is, it's original location, and how much its reader 'transformed' the text #Descartes #emphilo #histofphilo

It was nice to march with my son at the #FridaysForFuture Berlin #Klimastreik. It was his idea to go. How nice to reclaim the city streets from cars. I hope this is the future

For some reason Twitter has suspended the wonderful Dr. Peter Paul Rubens, who has entertained us all for years with her take on early modern art. PP won’t be back (would lose all followers) but will miss her contacts, so if you want to be directed to her, tell me. Simon Schama

Goodness me, bumper job openings for history of science & technology curators! Keeper of Science Collections at the Science Museum, Curator & Director of the Whipple and a couple of posts coming up soon at NMS. London, Cambridge or Edinburgh - take your pick!