Celine Camps
@celinecamps.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Nuremberg
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Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
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Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
I love finding these glimpses of the past: remnants of ceiling and wall paintings in sixteenth-century artisan houses that have survived the war, largely unscathed. #EarlyModern 🗃️
December 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I love finding these glimpses of the past: remnants of ceiling and wall paintings in sixteenth-century artisan houses that have survived the war, largely unscathed. #EarlyModern 🗃️
It’s official! Bring on the #EarlyModern screws! 🔩
December 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
It’s official! Bring on the #EarlyModern screws! 🔩
A secondary source referred me to an entry in an archival record which contains important information for my research.
The archival record (on microfilm) and entry in question:
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The archival record (on microfilm) and entry in question:
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December 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A secondary source referred me to an entry in an archival record which contains important information for my research.
The archival record (on microfilm) and entry in question:
💀
The archival record (on microfilm) and entry in question:
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Well, I envy you. The other day I was trying to find the date for "am pfingstag nach des heiligenn creuz tag." An archivist pulled out this book, flipped through it, did some calculations & determined the date within less than a minute. I just sat there thinking: What just happened? What did you do?
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Well, I envy you. The other day I was trying to find the date for "am pfingstag nach des heiligenn creuz tag." An archivist pulled out this book, flipped through it, did some calculations & determined the date within less than a minute. I just sat there thinking: What just happened? What did you do?
Could be. It's about a dispute between two craftsmen who needed the help of two ppl from the city council to solve it. The two men are mentioned, followed by that illegible phrase
"Martin Frantz und Jorg Remer [?] [linebreak]
[?] [7?] augusti 1531"
@jddelleluche.bsky.social in case this helps?
"Martin Frantz und Jorg Remer [?] [linebreak]
[?] [7?] augusti 1531"
@jddelleluche.bsky.social in case this helps?
![Martin frantz und Jorg Remer [?] [linebreak]
[?] [7?] Augusti 1531](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7jyefs5nyorzpf5xqzpuauky/bafkreibg6ipup7vqdeepeadpym2ul2allw3heokeuhcnjr622johr7ugjm@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Could be. It's about a dispute between two craftsmen who needed the help of two ppl from the city council to solve it. The two men are mentioned, followed by that illegible phrase
"Martin Frantz und Jorg Remer [?] [linebreak]
[?] [7?] augusti 1531"
@jddelleluche.bsky.social in case this helps?
"Martin Frantz und Jorg Remer [?] [linebreak]
[?] [7?] augusti 1531"
@jddelleluche.bsky.social in case this helps?
#SkyStorians familiar with 16thc German, what do you make of the phrase above 1531? Something with Iuni (June)? Is it an abbreviation of some sort?
It may be obvious, but after hours of transcribing I cannot make it out 😵💫 #Paleography 🗃️
It may be obvious, but after hours of transcribing I cannot make it out 😵💫 #Paleography 🗃️
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#SkyStorians familiar with 16thc German, what do you make of the phrase above 1531? Something with Iuni (June)? Is it an abbreviation of some sort?
It may be obvious, but after hours of transcribing I cannot make it out 😵💫 #Paleography 🗃️
It may be obvious, but after hours of transcribing I cannot make it out 😵💫 #Paleography 🗃️
Starting Monday with one of my favorite things ❤️ 🗃️ #Paleography
First page and I already struck oil! 🔩
First page and I already struck oil! 🔩
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Starting Monday with one of my favorite things ❤️ 🗃️ #Paleography
First page and I already struck oil! 🔩
First page and I already struck oil! 🔩
Maastricht – The Hague – Utrecht – Berlin – New York – Nuremberg –
Getting excited for the next stop: Munich 🤩
Getting excited for the next stop: Munich 🤩
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Maastricht – The Hague – Utrecht – Berlin – New York – Nuremberg –
Getting excited for the next stop: Munich 🤩
Getting excited for the next stop: Munich 🤩
I'm sure I will (already am). I can answer the question you raise in footnote 30, if Turner ever used the term 'eyeballing' in print: He does, in the appendix you cite. See the screenshot attached. I spotted it while looking at Turner's work for the ivory nocturnal (after your recommendation) :)
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I'm sure I will (already am). I can answer the question you raise in footnote 30, if Turner ever used the term 'eyeballing' in print: He does, in the appendix you cite. See the screenshot attached. I spotted it while looking at Turner's work for the ivory nocturnal (after your recommendation) :)
I recently joined the Scientific Instrument Society and they sent me one of their recent bulletins as a welcoming gift. I am so pleased to open it and to see @stephenaj.bsky.social's article on Astrolabes on the first page ❤️ #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #HistSci #HistTech #HisSTM 🗃️
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I recently joined the Scientific Instrument Society and they sent me one of their recent bulletins as a welcoming gift. I am so pleased to open it and to see @stephenaj.bsky.social's article on Astrolabes on the first page ❤️ #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #HistSci #HistTech #HisSTM 🗃️
Is this what you mean by change the layout in GDocs? I don't see any options for changing the "layout".
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Is this what you mean by change the layout in GDocs? I don't see any options for changing the "layout".
I'm not following you, I'm sorry (I'm sure it's me; I'm terrible with this stuff). So you're saying that if I insert an image in GDocs that is 300 DPI and then change its dimensions (making it smaller), the DPI will be bigger? B/c the screenshots from my free software suggest the opposite happens?
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I'm not following you, I'm sorry (I'm sure it's me; I'm terrible with this stuff). So you're saying that if I insert an image in GDocs that is 300 DPI and then change its dimensions (making it smaller), the DPI will be bigger? B/c the screenshots from my free software suggest the opposite happens?
I've been looking forward to this conference on the "Unbekanntes Kirchensilber" for weeks. So excited and grateful I can join via Zoom 🤍 Thanks a million for organizing @zikg.eu
#EarlyModern #ArtHistory 🏛️
#EarlyModern #ArtHistory 🏛️
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I've been looking forward to this conference on the "Unbekanntes Kirchensilber" for weeks. So excited and grateful I can join via Zoom 🤍 Thanks a million for organizing @zikg.eu
#EarlyModern #ArtHistory 🏛️
#EarlyModern #ArtHistory 🏛️
Don’t you just love microfilm 💀It’s like I’m looking at it cross eyed.
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Don’t you just love microfilm 💀It’s like I’m looking at it cross eyed.
How does it work? See the watermark. It looks like P w/ shield, so I went to Letters/ciphers > P > Free gothic form w/ mark >
Coats of arms > No additional mark > Above (upright) > Bow end behind shaft > Shaft end broken. And voilà, several records from the mid-to-late sixteenth century w/ the mark.
Coats of arms > No additional mark > Above (upright) > Bow end behind shaft > Shaft end broken. And voilà, several records from the mid-to-late sixteenth century w/ the mark.
October 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
How does it work? See the watermark. It looks like P w/ shield, so I went to Letters/ciphers > P > Free gothic form w/ mark >
Coats of arms > No additional mark > Above (upright) > Bow end behind shaft > Shaft end broken. And voilà, several records from the mid-to-late sixteenth century w/ the mark.
Coats of arms > No additional mark > Above (upright) > Bow end behind shaft > Shaft end broken. And voilà, several records from the mid-to-late sixteenth century w/ the mark.
I also spotted it in Berlin (though this one doesn't include the "Albrecht").
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I also spotted it in Berlin (though this one doesn't include the "Albrecht").
And for those who like this as much as I do: in Nuremberg, they sell it as a postcard and bookmark.
October 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
And for those who like this as much as I do: in Nuremberg, they sell it as a postcard and bookmark.
I will use any excuse to bring up Dürer's self-portrait again when talking about his drawings.
October 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I will use any excuse to bring up Dürer's self-portrait again when talking about his drawings.
This reading room is divine, I’m surrounded by old books, manuscripts and trees.
October 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This reading room is divine, I’m surrounded by old books, manuscripts and trees.
Welcoming the technology on the left with open arms after having spent 4 hours looking at the one on the right (and having aged 50 years in the process). 📜 #HistTech
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Welcoming the technology on the left with open arms after having spent 4 hours looking at the one on the right (and having aged 50 years in the process). 📜 #HistTech
On a different note, I had to think of you and the astrolabe we looked at here when I was in Dresden and found another "annotation" on a sixteenth-century clock (reminding me of the '1542' inscribed in the astrolabe).
October 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
On a different note, I had to think of you and the astrolabe we looked at here when I was in Dresden and found another "annotation" on a sixteenth-century clock (reminding me of the '1542' inscribed in the astrolabe).
The fog on the other side of the church was so thick that my phone could only make grainy pictures, making it look like I traveled back in time and took a picture of the St. Sebaldus in the 1980s. It looks majestic! 🤍
October 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The fog on the other side of the church was so thick that my phone could only make grainy pictures, making it look like I traveled back in time and took a picture of the St. Sebaldus in the 1980s. It looks majestic! 🤍
But nothing beats the magic of Nuremberg in all its early-morning snow-covered winter glory ❄️ 🤍
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
But nothing beats the magic of Nuremberg in all its early-morning snow-covered winter glory ❄️ 🤍
The fog is so thick, you cannot even see the castle anymore, usually towering in the distance.
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The fog is so thick, you cannot even see the castle anymore, usually towering in the distance.