while we continue to do battle with bot swarms (and hope to agreed on a more advanced strategy with Tufts), this paper appeared. Useful as the Perseus DL can be as a website, our bigger contribution is probably providing data for many other projects. This only begins the story.

We're thrilled to be co-sponsoring the 2026 E.H. Gombrich Lecture Series next week, 22-24 September at 6:00 pm BST, with @warburginstitute.bsky.social! Dr. Anthony Grafton of @princeton.edu will deliver this three-part lecture series on the life & controversies of Joseph Scaliger. Details below:

⏳ Two days left to apply The deadline for the BSHS Outreach & Engagement Project Grants is in two days. Grants of up to £500 are available to support creative public engagement with the history of science, technology, and medicine. Don't forget to submit your proposals! bshs.org.uk/oec/#project...

The "Visualization of the Heavens" database has launched to the public 🌌 The platform provides around 3000 objects related to #Astronomy and starscapes originating in Eurasia and North Africa from 4000 BCE until 1700 CE. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2cnnd92j #HistSci #OpenAccess #DigiHum

Lise Meitner Research Group "China in the Global System of Science" is looking to hire a Student/Graduate Assistant to support: 📚 research 📋 event support 🖍️ editorial work (German/English/Chinese) 📊 data visualization 🗓️ Deadline: Sep 15, 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3 #STS #Sinology #China

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

The @harvard.edu Centre for Italian #Renaissance Studies in Florence Italy and the Warburg Institute offer a joint, residential #fellowship for the 2027-2028 academic year. Applications open - deadline to apply 16 November 2026. Find out more and apply ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel... #funding

The 2026 Nuncius Prize deadline has been extended: the new closing date of the Prize is 23.59 (CET) on 30 September 2026. You will find further information here: brill.com/fileasset/do...

Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT Opening ceremony: roundtable on DHST activities and its comissions. In this session, representatives of different DHST Commissions will speak about the role and activities DHST is carrying out. www.chstm.org/group/early-...

New digitized manuscripts at e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/all/... @fragmentarium.bsky.social

For this instalment of “10 Questions for the Historian of Science,” I spoke to Clemency Montelle about her research. Prof. Montelle delivered a public talk at the launch of the ASTRA Research Group in October 2024. www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-stor... @mpiwg.bsky.social

If you missed last week's #CoffeeWithACodex featuring a 13th century astronomical text + diagrams, you can watch it now on YouTube! youtu.be/OSVK6_PEl6g

Coffee With A Codex: Astronomy in Latin (Ms. Codex 826)

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For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on July 23, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 826, an astronomical work originally written in Arabic and translated into Latin by Gherardo da Cremona, including glosses and diagrams. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/3RAagTq

2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh 2026: Tabular Practices and the Cross-cultural Exchange of Knowledge in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy, sponsored by CHAMA. Presentations by E. Andriani, B. van Dalen, J. Garzon, C. Özdemir, J. Steele, Y. Verspreet, and M. Yavari, S. Zieme, and M. Husson.

Alfonsine Astronomy, vol. 3: Computational Practices is now out—and fully open access! 🎉 "Unfolding more than two centuries of late mediaeval astronomers’ computational practices, this collective volume explores new venues in the history of astronomy." @brepols.net www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

If you missed our visit with Rochester Institute of Technology's Cary Collection 15th century Italian copy of Johannes de Sacrobosco's De Sphera Mundi (bound with two other texts) you can watch it now! It has some unusual diagrams that are worth seeing. youtu.be/FSyZjp5Fm4g

Coffee with a Codex: Astronomy Manuscript in Rochester, NY

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Applications for the Mid-Career Fellowships are open. The programme supports individual research projects fostering public engagement and understanding of the humanities and social sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4f09Crd

Despite the meltdown of the trains in Belgium, the #OIKOS Crash Course in #Greek #Palaeography hosted by @unileiden.bsky.social was a true and rare delight: an armillary sphere: a 9C Handy Tables and a very happy @dulila.bsky.social 😍🤩✨✨💫💫 #starwalks

Next in our #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th c. astronomical and mathematical manuscript, what we’ve all been waiting for: diagrams! There are several, a couple illustrating eclipses, and diagrams of an astrolabe and a quadrant. Written in Italy. #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/41EAKFa

If you missed it - an introduction to our newly acquired MIDDLE ENGLISH FOLDING ALMANAC LONG THOUGHT LOST, ONE OF TWO KNOWN MIDDLE ENGLISH FOLDING ALMANACS - you can see it now and learn its story on YouTube! youtu.be/MHHMrEmWL7A

Coffee with a Codex: Folding Almanac in Middle English (Ms. Codex 2368)

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The word is out... tomorrow's #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm Noon EST, on Zoom and open to all) is a 15th century folding medical and astrological almanac, in Middle English. Described and transcribed in the 19th century, it was thought to be lost. But we have it now, and we'll share it with you tomorrow.

Next in our #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th century astronomical and mathematical manuscript written in Italy:: How do scribes deal with a hole in the parchment? This 13th century scribe outlined the hole in red on one side, and simply wrote around it. 🔗: https://bit.ly/41EAKFa

Dr Kristen Lippincott gave a fascinating lecture in the Warburg recently, discussing the representation of the constellations and figures on a celestial globe, in artworks from c15th Italy kept in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. Watch now ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzu... #renaissance #germanus

The word is out... tomorrow's #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm Noon EST, on Zoom and open to all) is a 15th century folding medical and astrological almanac, in Middle English. Described and transcribed in the 19th century, it was thought to be lost. But we have it now, and we'll share it with you tomorrow.

Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies@sims-mss.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For #CoffeeWithACodex on May 14 (12pm Noon, on Zoom), we'll show you a very special and exciting new acquisition! What is it? We can't tell you, but we can promise that no matter what kind of manuscripts you're interested in, you'll want to see this! #medievalsky Register: https://bit.ly/4urZbS9

Das MPIWG sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine:n #Werkstudent:in für das Sachgebiet Einkauf und Finanzen 🛒 🌐 Unterstützung beim Aufbau unseres Vertragsmanagementsystems 💌 Assistenz bei der Rechnungsprüfung 🗂️ Mitarbeit an der Digitalisierung der Verwaltung 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu5tend3 #BerlinJob

Research Scholar @jeffreykotyk.bsky.social on @tagesschau.bsky.social on the transmission of #ZodiacSigns through #Buddhism into East Asian culture. 🔭 🔗 buff.ly/yqQbsLz (GER) #HistSci #Astrology #AstroSky #Astronomy #JapaneseStudies #Sinology

Wie die Astrologie die Wissenschaften voranbrachte

Astrologie gehört zu den Pseudowissenschaften. Trotzdem haben Horoskope in der Antike Impulse für die moderne Astronomie und die Mathematik gegeben. Von Sven Kästner.

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We’re currently recruiting for a Project Cataloguer on a 1 year fixed-term contract to catalogue parts of our archives relating to our transfer from Hamburg to London in 1933. 35 hours per week £30,842 per annum Apply by 12 May 2026 Apply now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #jobopportunity #UoL

Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...

Technologies of Making and Knowing - HIAA

Beyond its modern conceptualization, technology has always informed artistic production...

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New #OpenAccess book: "DAGA TUDAA. Pensées #Toubou II" 📕 Mahuma Abaliy Sediké explores how oral traditions such as proverbs, #Riddles, and tales convey broader knowledge on #Astronomy, pharmacopoeia, or clan brands in the Central Sahara. 🔗 buff.ly/iHlZliE #HistSci #OralHistory #Anthropology

ICOHTEC 2026: Deadline fast approaching! This conference invites reflections on how the history of technology intersects with evolving methodologies, theories, pedagogies, and other branches of historical study, submit your paper at: icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr

Latest in a series of posts on the Linda Hall Library's earliest editions of Sacrobosco's book on late medieval astronomy, combined with Georg Peurbach's planetary models and including an early use of printing with color woodblocks: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM #MedievalSky

In collaboration with the Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World (Freie Universität), we are delighted to host Alfred Schmid's talk "Hatte die Horoskop-Astrologie einen Gegenstand?" today. Click the link for more details: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/hatte-...