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Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social · 9d

Join us tomorrow (29 October) for #casebookstherapy!!
@jakubochocinski.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social
@laurenkassell.bsky.social
#histmed #astrology #histsci #earlymodern

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · 10d

Our first session is this Wednesday @laurenkassell.bsky.social

Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 12

Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 23

& my own: “Celestial Science and Practical Knowledge: Everyday uses of Calendars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth” #skystorians #emhistory #history #hismed

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 23

Titles of our presentations.

Luís: “How it shall speed? Astrological Practices in Early Modern Nautical Culture”

Tuna: “A ‘Pathology’ of Prognostications: Courtly politics of Medical Astrology in Ottoman Istanbul in the late 17th Century”

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 23

Last week in Istanbul with @ulastuna.bsky.social and @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social after our panel at Scientiae2025 “Prognostication, fortune, and risk: How people navigated material fortunes through almanacs and astrological consulations in the e.m world.” Thank you both and Scientiae organisers!

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 12

@eui-history.bsky.social

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Sep 12

Will be going to this!

Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 12

Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 12

@laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social @extispex.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks #earlymodern #history #historyofmedicine #astrology

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Sep 12

Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · May 20

Tomorrow (21 May 15:00-16:00 Florence time) is our final session of casebooks therapy for this academic year. If you’d like to join dm me for the zoom link! #skystorians #casebooks #astronomy #astrology @laurenkassell.bsky.social

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Sergio Orozco-Echeverri @sergiooe.bsky.social · May 16

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

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · May 13

Happening later this week -- Kepler, Kircher, Grynaeus, Bruno, and more: 😃 👇 #earlymodern #histsci

The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · Apr 24

Emotion in Early Modern Science?

Join us for a 2-day conference at the Warburg Institute exploring how Kepler, Kircher, and Boyle used pathos, praise & wonder in their scientific writing.

📅 15–16 May
🎟️ Free (in person or online)

Emotional Persuasion in Early Modern Science: Vernacular and Neo-Latin Perspectives

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warburg.sas.ac.uk

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · May 13

Happy to see my review of @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social’s book, Jesuit Astrology, to be out in the JHA today. Congratulations again, Luís! #skystorians #astronomy #astrology

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Apr 25

Of course. There’s also Ann Geneva’s book, i can’t remember if she looks at cases @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social any others?

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Apr 25

Sue Ward just brought out the first of three volumes on Lilly’s public and private writings! Here’s the link: sue-ward.co.uk

Sue Ward's Traditional Astrology – Traditional Astrology teaching and research

sue-ward.co.uk

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Beatrice Bottomley @beatricebottomley.bsky.social · Apr 25

Today (25 April), I’m joining the Writing Technologies team for an informal workshop to chat about the properties of stones in a medieval Arabic handbook of recipes for remedies and wonders by the 13th alchemist al-ʿIrāqī, and my tentative steps into thinking about stones and generation 💎

Stone III

Online workshop Friday, 25th April, 10-11.30am Boston/ 3-4.30pm London/ 4-5.30pm Paris Register for the zoom meeting here. Presenters: Beatrice Barbara Anne Bottomley, Research fellow, Department of P...

writingearly.hypotheses.org

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Sergio Orozco-Echeverri @sergiooe.bsky.social · Apr 23

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

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · Apr 24

Heading to Fribourg🇨🇭in mid-May for a phenomenal seminar on time and writing in early modern almanacs, organised by Vitus Huber. Another chance to revisit my PhD dissertation (2018), where I first developed and introduced archaeology of care as an interpretative method.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · Apr 24

Emotion in Early Modern Science?

Join us for a 2-day conference at the Warburg Institute exploring how Kepler, Kircher, and Boyle used pathos, praise & wonder in their scientific writing.

📅 15–16 May
🎟️ Free (in person or online)

Emotional Persuasion in Early Modern Science: Vernacular and Neo-Latin Perspectives

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warburg.sas.ac.uk

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Apr 16

Very much looking forward to this symposium next month organised by Vitus Huber! Writing-calendar galore ✍️

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Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social · Apr 14

The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier. Thanks to @jakubochocinski.bsky.social for organising. dm or email him
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social

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Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Apr 14

Our next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday!

Jakub Ochocinski @jakubochocinski.bsky.social · Mar 17

The next #casebooks therapy is this Wednesday 19 March - we’ll be reading the casebooks of #simonforman and #richardnapier dm or email me for the zoom link
@eui-history.bsky.social @laurenkassell.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Mar 26

Some news!

I am writing a book about everyday bewitchment using, among other records, Napier's casebooks, which I spent four years transcribing.

I want to move away from sensationalist narratives.

I am super glad to have met Fabienne who is amazing.

I've had a can of Red Bull to celebrate.

Ki Agency @kiagency.bsky.social · Mar 26

Exciting Wednesday news: we’re thrilled to be representing @hagenilda.bsky.social for her trade work!

Dr Joanne Edge joins Ki | Ki Agency

www.ki-agency.co.uk

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Eliska Bujokova @eliskabujokova.bsky.social · Mar 11

📣Thrilled to be joining Bluesky conversations with my most recent publication on Scottish midwifery! Many thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social and @sgsah.bsky.social!!
doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

‘None Regardless of Reputation Will Be Received’: Midwifery and Commercial Bodywork in Urban Scotland c. 1780–c. 18401

Summary. This article presents two case studies of Scottish midwives, Mrs Laidlaw from Edinburgh and Mrs Alexander from Aberdeen who used newspaper adverti

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · Mar 17

#otd 1627 Napier records a visit by 'on[e] Mr Eastworth a yorkesheerman' who 'should have broght me Mres Kays letter for the taking of physick against melanch[oly] but forgot it & the token of gold in it & left it behind him in yorke sheere'. He 'will send it if he can'.

Manuscript image of the quoted text (CASE63427 in the online edition).

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