My paper "Models and Analogies in the Reconstruction of Extinct Life" is also out now in this volume dedicated to Hesse ⬇️ #HPS #PaleoSky #Philsky ⚒️ link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Models and Analogies in the Reconstruction of Extinct Life

How can we reconstruct what long extinct animals, such as dinosaurs, looked like, how fast they moved, and what ecological role they played in their paleoenvironment? These features are not preserved ...

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Paul L. Franco@loadofbunk.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Looks like this volume on Mary Hesse edited by Pietro Gori is now published! If you were at #HOPOS in Vienna and went to the various talks and symposium on Hesse, you'll recognize some chapters. I wrote one on Hesse's early work (1952-1961) on scientific language. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I love you, Rome

In Madrid, on my way to Italy for the Berenson Fellowship at I Tatti @harvard.edu #Renaissance #Calendars #EarlyModern

One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship. Apply before Oct. 1st! Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

Fellowship Programme | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience

The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

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#Bluehistorians #Skystorians Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿 In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free @sergiooe.bsky.social #environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture

Les compartimos @vpajuelo.bsky.social y yo el artículo en open access "La invención del naufragio. Memoria, náutica y política en el desastre del correo El Sandoval (Golfo de México, 1787)", sobre el relato de un supuesto desastre como instrumento de negociación. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

La invención del naufragio. Memoria, náutica y política en el desastre del correo El Sandoval (Golfo de México, 1787)

En las sociedades marítimas, los relatos de naufragios se utilizaron como mecanismos de enunciación histórica con los que proyectar valores individuales y justificar decisiones colectivas. En la me...

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Some personal thoughts on the recent death of the historian of science, Mario Biagioli #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/m...

Mario Biagioli (1955–2025)

Over the years I have gained a reputation for being extremely negative about Galileo Galilei and his supposed achievements and contributions to the evolution of science. As I point out from time to…

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I'm honoured to have been granted the Berenson Fellowship at Harvard's i Tatti in Florence. I'll be working on the medical astrology, meteorology, and environmental aspects of Iberian-American almanacs and calendars #histsci itatti.harvard.edu/upcoming-app...

Amazing workshop on #earlymodern #almanacs It was great to meet old and new friends in this amazing place #Fribourg

How did #almanacs provide orientation for a "New World"? I'll be talking about Spanish-American almanacs in this fantastic workshop in Fribourg, Switzerland organised by Vitus Huber. If you are interested in #earlymodern uses of #time take a look at the programme #histsci

🚨 Cambridge HPS is partnering with CRASSH for funded Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South in 2026. The theme for applications is Science, Politics and Justice. The deadline for applications is 24 February 2025. More info here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fel...

Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South - CRASSH

A new programme of funded Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South

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How old is the Earth? Here is my review of Dal Prete’s “On the edge of time” for the Renaissance Quarterly #histsci #renaissance #time bit.ly/4fHqyQV

Science and empire workshop on Monday. I'll be talking about the mathematics that circulated with astrology and cosmography in early modern Iberian-American territories (free online, organised by ENS -PSL Paris) royalhistsoc.org/calendar/col...

What about some 1665 anonymous poem on coffee houses and coffee printed in London?

I’m in London for the Lisa Jardine Grant researching into the early Royal Society’s interest on the stars, the geography, the plants, and nature of Iberian-American worlds. If you’re around, drop me a line and let’s meet for a coffee!

This fantastic collection of bibliographic essays is not just a narrative guide to scholarship about past epidemics but a collective reckoning with the limitations of #histmed #histsci in the face of a pandemic. All #openaccess and highly recommended. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/202...