🎉👏 Congratulations to @sietskefransen.bsky.social, Head of our Max Planck Research Group "Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions", who was appointed Professor by special appointment of Early Modern European Intellectual History at Radboud University in Nijmegen 🇳🇱!
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This was one of those amazing experiences: 3 days of focus, no computers, learning skills from a fantastic teacher, which we can use for our own historical inquiries. #lovingmyjob #whatagreatanddedicatedteam #drawing

@chrmeijer.bsky.social #worms

@trude-dijkstra.bsky.social

Trude en ik in de Pieterskerk in Leiden waar we allebei in het feestelijk zwart met groen accent aankwamen, zonder dat het was afgesproken

Super dress match met Trude Dijkstra vanavond bij #avondwm, de Avond van wetenschap & maatschappij waar we als tafelwetenschappers een stelling mochten inbrengen en bespreken met fantastische tafelgenoten. #boekwetenschap & #wetenschapsgeschiedenis

Venice this week! For the opening of the exhibition “Diagrams, a project by AMO/OMA” at the Fondazione Prada, Ca’Corner. It has been fantastic to play a small role in this project and it is even better to now see the whole show in reality, and amazing to speak to all the people involved

How very exciting! Beautiful cover! Looking forward to reading the book

Dank je, Charlotte!

This is a project I have been working on for several month and I am very excited that the exhibition “Diagrams. A Project by AMO/OMA” will open soon —> 10 May at Ca’ Corner, Fondazione Prada, Venice

This week I have the honour of taking care of the Bluesky account @historicivertellen.bsky.social, where I well show you a bit more about my work (week). All in Dutch!

Advertisement of drawing course “Drawing Rome”, against a black and white background of the ceiling of the Pantheon

The amazing #drawing course “Drawing Rome” will run again, taught by artist and architect David Dernie. It’s an amazing way to learn to see, observe and draw (and to explore #Rome) for beginners as well as experienced people.

Jean Du Breuil, Perspectiva Practica, 1710, 123

📐📏 French mathematic Jean Du Breuil (1602–1670) explains how scale impacts our perception. The Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions, led by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, examines how science is depicted in our rare book collection: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visuali.../v...

From Storms to Stars: Materiality and Visualizations of the Sky How do we capture the ever-changing nature of the sky? This research seminar examines the different strategies artists and scientists have used to visualize the terrestrial and celestial sky.

Today! Exciting seminar about #materiality and #visualizations of the #sky with Omar Nasim and Nicholas Robbins. Taking place 14:00-16:00 @bhmpi.bsky.social and also online. Please join us! www.biblhertz.it/events/41036... 🗃️🔭🧪🎨

Joachim Sandrart presents two legends about the invention of drawing. More in the online exhibition of our rare books curated by the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” @sietskefransen.bsky.social @ariellaminden.bsky.social
🔗: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...

Vacancy — PhD position: Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). You will work on the Italian subproject of the project Daily Bread. A Comparative...

Wonderful opportunity to undertake a 4-year fully funded PhD at UoAmsterdam for a project on Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy working with the fantastic @maartjevg.bsky.social werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

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#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Postdoctoral (M/F/D) / Predoctoral Fellows (M/F/D)Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions”

Less than a week to apply for predoc and postdoc fellowships in my group. Come and join us! Deadline March 3rd. @bhmpi.bsky.social www.biblhertz.it/de/opportuni...

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Here is a link to an online exhibit my team curated out of the amazing rare books collection of the @bhmpi.bsky.social. All books are also fully digitized and freely available to study! 🗃️ #earlymodern #science #art

#earlymodern #arthistory #materiality #histsci #science 🧪🔬🗃️

Very pleased this came out! I investigate epistemic values of texts, images, and objects in seventeenth-century microscopy. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Final call for fellows in my group, please apply if you want to be part of the team!

Happy #paper day with the research group, visiting the Museo della carta e della filigrana in #Fabriano. Learning about the history of paper (making) and doing it ourselves! @bhmpi.bsky.social #visualizingscience

Amazing, congratulations!

To whom it may concern:

This is such an amazing course! I did it in the summer and loved it! Learned so much about drawing, Rome, and looking and observing. I’d recommend it to everyone!

The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding.

Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone!

#museumjobs 📜 #histsci

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/

@chrmeijer.bsky.social 🐛

Thank you! Yes, that must have been Pamela Mackenzie www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/ma..., she was a phd researcher in my team, and wrote a fantastic thesis on Grew!

Just found this, would you be able to add me? Historian of science working in images/art and collaborating with artists here.