Early modern whales are so fun too look at. Image source: a whale from Conrad Gessner's Nomenclator aquatilium animantium (1606).

Dr Serena Dyer & I are delighted to announce a project we’ve been working on - our forthcoming edited volume ‘Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe’ is now available for pre-order Amsterdam Univ Press ! Published 13 Dec! aup.nl/en/book/978946…

We have a stellar line up of articles on making cosmetics (@profjill_burke Erin Griffey), maternity dress (Catriona Fisk), cooking & household production (@amandaeherbert Leonie Hannan ), silk production & even woodblock printing (Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social) & forward by Evelyn Welch

Over the summer, I had the pleasure of consulting a few historical herbaria and botanical books with Maura C. Flannery @flannerm.bsky.social. We walked out of the session with so many new observations and fruitful thoughts for more research!

A lovely new post by Maura C. Flannery @flannerm.bsky.social on Herbarium World discusses recent work at Oak Spring Garden Foundation by the historian and artist Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social Plant Humanities: Florilegia and Herbaria herbariumworld.wordpress.com

Post from Herbarium World on Plant Humanities and art, focusing on the Jessie Chen's Herbarium @jessiewhchen.bsky.social: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/pla…

spread the word / vertel het rond: Looking for 2 enthusiastic book- and/or art historians to come join the team of the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)" universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

This block was very suitable for practicing cutting curved lines. Image source: Acanthide from Conrad Gessner's Historiae Animalium Liber III. qui est de Avium natura (1585).

How did 16th–18th century naturalists capture the stunning colors of insects? Discover the creative techniques, rare illustrations, and fascinating stories in this open access book. 👉brill.ws/enh7 #Art #lepidoptery #NaturalHistory

20.000 mensen op het Malieveld! 📣 Onze voorzitter Caspar van den Berg met een duidelijke boodschap; ‘Wat zeggen wij tegen de tweede kamer en het kabinet DOE.HET.NIET’ ❗️🚨 #universiteitenhelpenNLvooruit

Really excited to share that, as of today, I will be working as a postdoc researcher in the project Visualizing the Unknown, which investigates early modern scientific observation, representation, and communication of microscopic studies and images! visualizingtheunknown.com

Jumping right into action with day 1 of VisionLab, in which we looked at books on butterflies & moths at the Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Discussions centered around how to visualize microscopic observations of the insects through prints and related challenges. #VisualizingtheUnknown

I talked about some of the stunning botanical books in the Teylers collections on day 2 of VisionLab! We focused on the various book formats and how the physical sizes of the picture planes affected the depictions of plants & microscopic observations. #VisualizingtheUnknown

New from Amsterdam Univ Press - Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, & Material Culture Ed. Sarah Bendall & Dr Serena Dyer aup.nl/en/book/978946… Read the intro (no paywall!) here: assets.ctfassets.net/4wrp2um278k7/5…

Dr Serena Dyer & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now! It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life. Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

So delighted that this book is out & honored to be part of it. All the chapters are so exciting! It was great to document and reflect on my past experimentations on early modern woodcutting. More questions also emerged from this chapter for future work.

I no longer use this site, but making an exception for this news. My book is out & the digital version is #openaccess! 📗brill.com/display/title/…🪻 Book presentation takes place @ the KB, The Hague, on 3 December. All welcome! To register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/Det…. #HistNatHist