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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 1d

🧵🧵In the very first instalment of this guest author and fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣series, it is my pleasure to introduce Stamatina Mastorakou (@smasto.bsky.social), the October Cosmopoet! Here's what she had to share about her chosen poem:

Byzantine Silver Plate Depicting Aratus and Urania

This Byzantine silver plate is on view at the Institute as part of the exhibition "Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity".

isaw.nyu.edu

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 1d

Well yes, but in every impressionistic image there must be a grain of realistic diagrammatic something, right? The horoscopic square is easily recognisable for instance. And I wonder about the rest, and yes, especially about that lunar crescent one...

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 1d

Cool! I like "determinedly oblique". I see the horoscope, but what do you say about the rest of the diagrams?

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 2d

🧵🧵As much as I find the research I am doing for this project fascinating and fun for me to do, I have been thinking that I am missing the collaborative community-building and fostering element that is usually not at the core of individual postdoc projects.

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 2d

The first talk of our Institute's Colloquium series 2025/26 "Rethinking #Time in the History of Science": @helgejojo.bsky.social and François Hartog on "Unsettling the Historiographic Operation." 🗃

🗓️ Nov 18, 2025 (14:00 CET)
📍 MPIWG

🔗 bit.ly/3IApzqX

#HistSci #CulturalHistory @ehess.fr

Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 3d

I like the addition of a cloudy sky - theoretically an obstacle for the functioning of the sundial!

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 3d

Not so random because I knew it was there: an unassuming, nothing-to-write-home-about sundial in Brussels, just above La Pharmacie Delacre 🤔😏🤩https://monument.heritage.brussels/fr/Bruxelles_Pentagone/Coudenberg/62/30083 @cosmopoet.bsky.social

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 4d

Who knows 🤔 but I'll try to find out things about the building. Also what a wonderful mosaic!!!

Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 5d

A casual walk in Ghent and bam! - an armillary sphere ! 🤩🌌💫 @cosmopoet.bsky.social

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 14d

🧵🧵The first year of COSMOPOET is now over, and while another year remains, it is already clear that cosmopoetics and the role of poetry and verse in the astral sciences are a large iceberg and we are only seeing its tip for now.

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samuel gessner @sgessner.bsky.social · 25d

This is a wonderful moment of preparation of the upcoming EIDA workshop. I am most grateful for this support, and look very much forward to see the instruments in action! (Even if, as a consequence, we figure out that we got it all wrong with our reconstruction of this arcane instrument…)

COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 25d

It is a Saturday and what better activity than building planicelia together with @sgessner.bsky.social and Florence Somer in preparation for Celestial Scripts on Monday!

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 25d

It is a Saturday and what better activity than building planicelia together with @sgessner.bsky.social and Florence Somer in preparation for Celestial Scripts on Monday!

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Stephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social · Sep 14

Just two weeks to go until the #Oxford #astrolabe study day on Saturday 27 September! Learn the making and use of this most iconic scientific instrument – with the bonus that everyone attending gets to assemble and take home their own modern laser-cut astrolabe.

A prototype version of a modern astrolabe designed and produced by Kevin Karney, pinned together with cocktail sticks and held up by string.

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Sep 14

There is an EIDA page (eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/2...) but it seems to me that the IFEA one is more up to date.

2025: Celestial Scripts: A Comparative Study of Astrological Diagrams in Manuscripts from the pre and early Modern Periods

Org. Florence Somer (EIDA project, LTE, PSL-Observatoire de Paris) Dates September 22nd-23rd, 2025 Place Instanbul, IFEA (Institut Français des Etudes Anatoliennes) This workshop is part of the EIDA ...

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · Jun 20

Neophytos the Recluse, the Monk Gabriel, Máximos Planudes: manuscripts, authors and Byzantinists and the beautiful Edinburgh! Huge thanks to the organisers and to both libraries: @natlibscot.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh's Main Library!

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 17

I am staying with friends in Dunbar and we go for long dog walks in beautiful places.

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 17

North Berwick is also very beautiful

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 17

Dunbar is very pretty, so I recommend coming!

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 16

Sun(dials) and Sea in Dunbar today

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · Jun 13

The penultimate stop on COSMOPOET's tour before the summer: Edinburgh and a workshop on 'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation'. More details and the program are available here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation'

This workshop takes its cue from two authorial/autograph manuscripts in Edinburgh’s small but fine collection of medieval Greek (Byzantine) manuscripts.

hca.ed.ac.uk

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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · Jun 9

PhD position available in the field of history of astronomy from Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages

Università di Pavia, Italy

Deadline June 30, 2025

More details available at the following webpage: phd.unipv.it/call-41/

Please share!

Call for applications to access PhD courses – 41st cycle – a. y. 2025/2026 – Dottorati di Ricerca

Phd University of Pavia

phd.unipv.it

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · Jun 5

2025: Training week: A global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: new approaches, new digital tools
Just a few photos from the first two days @cosmopoet.bsky.social @stephenaj.bsky.social @tur-alexandre.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social @irht-cnrs.bsky.social

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 2

A star that shone brightly and attracted everyone's attention! 💫

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Stephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social · Jun 2

Now with Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social on Byzantine manuscripts, and here with her (all time?) favorite, an example with many texts in one codex - a library in one volume, with several quadrivial works, but also theological and geomantic

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 2

Good morning!

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