Christoffer Basse Eriksen
@cberiksen.bsky.social
Historian of science and ideas writing about microscopes, insects and flowers. Postdoc at Aarhus University. Member of the Danish Young Academy.
Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon! brill.com/display/titl... #NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers
Everlasting Flowers between the Pages
"Everlasting Flowers between the Pages" published on 28 Aug 2025 by Brill.
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I’m very happy to announce that I’ve been awarded an IRFD Starting Grant for the project “Sovereign Flowers: Flora Danica and the Emergence of the National Flora, 1750–1900.” Hooray! The project allows me to build a small research group of a PhD student and a postdoc at Aarhus University (@au.dk).
Fascinating presentation about “Bee-keeping, plant breeding, and early 18th C flower ecology” by @cberiksen.bsky.social at ISIH 2025: “Women, Men, and other Animals” in Aarhus. @isih-blueskye.bsky.social
I'm very happy to see my piece on insect pollination published on the awesome Journal of the History of Ideas blog.
Journal of the History of Ideas@jhideas.bsky.social · last yr.In a series of striking episodes from nineteenth-century botanists' and naturalists' studies of insect polination, Christoffer Eriksen (@cberiksen.bsky.social) shows how ecological thinking developed in Enlightenment-era greenhouses and gardens.
When you open an old notebook in the archive and there is a snake (skin): @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🗃️💙📚
Funded PhD Studentship @UCL History and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in #earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo.... #histmed #histsci #HSTM #bookhistory
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Scroll through their thread. This is like an episode from A.S. Byatt’s novel _Possession_. Adventures in research! 🗃️ 💙 📚
Dr Xinyi Wen@drxinyiwen.bsky.social · 2y agoLast week, when the BJHS article by @cberiksen.bsky.social and I received the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize at HSS Mérida, I wrote a 🧵 on X sharing our research process. Now I'll redo it on BlueSky, this time with more images of our archival sources: 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern
Xinyi has written a wonderful thread about our collaborative research on Margery Power peppered with pictures from our many archival trips. So many good memories!
Dr Xinyi Wen@drxinyiwen.bsky.social · 2y agoLast week, when the BJHS article by @cberiksen.bsky.social and I received the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize at HSS Mérida, I wrote a 🧵 on X sharing our research process. Now I'll redo it on BlueSky, this time with more images of our archival sources: 🗃️ #HistSci #EarlyModern
After flowers, the next section of "Sleeping Beauties" focused on insects in fashion. To introduce the topic, they had the oldest item of the exhibit, this 1615-20 British waistcoat. It has embroidered flowers, birds, and insects with taxonomical accuracy, representing an English garden.
Proofs have arrived. We’re all set to launch the next wave of Grew scholarship.
Current writing mood: "There are some Erratas in the Book, but the writer says he is too lazie to give you a Note of them" (1676) Show me a writer who cannot relate... 🗃️
#CallForPapers: The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (5-7 November 2025, Antwerp). #Bookhistory #HerBook #WomensHistory #Herstory museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...
Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO rese...
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Entirely new on this thing. Is there a history of science starter pack? I missed those conversations after X turned into utter garbage.
