Barbara Bienias
@bbienias.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Institute for the History of Science (Polish Academy of Sciences)
History of astronomy and astrology in early modern England: the reception of Copernican theory; almanacs; cosmology;
early modern epistemology; history of the book
History of astronomy and astrology in early modern England: the reception of Copernican theory; almanacs; cosmology;
early modern epistemology; history of the book
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Happy to announce that the #Transkribus model I've had the pleasure of working on for the last few years is live! It is built on a variety of hands used in English courts around 1530-1650 (just hit over 1 mil words in the training set!) Take a look: #earlymodern app.transkribus.org/models/publi...
Egerton: English Secretary Hand
This model transcribes English secretary hand, which was in use during the 16th and 17th centuries. The model was primarily, but not exclusively, trained on equity court material from the National Arc...
app.transkribus.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happy to announce that the #Transkribus model I've had the pleasure of working on for the last few years is live! It is built on a variety of hands used in English courts around 1530-1650 (just hit over 1 mil words in the training set!) Take a look: #earlymodern app.transkribus.org/models/publi...
I spent the second half of June and the beginning of July in London, Cambridge, and Bristol - working, researching, and living fully. To reflect on this time, here's my #FellowshipAlphabet : a personal memory thread (and a thank you to all involved). 🧵1/27
#EarlyModern #Bookhistory #HistoryofScience
#EarlyModern #Bookhistory #HistoryofScience
July 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I spent the second half of June and the beginning of July in London, Cambridge, and Bristol - working, researching, and living fully. To reflect on this time, here's my #FellowshipAlphabet : a personal memory thread (and a thank you to all involved). 🧵1/27
#EarlyModern #Bookhistory #HistoryofScience
#EarlyModern #Bookhistory #HistoryofScience
Many thanks to @srsrensoc.bsky.social and Bristol Organising Committee for such a wonderful conference. #RenSoc25 I feel inspired and happy to be part of such a thriving community. Special thanks to my Chair, @racheljwillie.bsky.social , and co-panelists - @eprenprof.bsky.social and Matteo Leta.
July 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Many thanks to @srsrensoc.bsky.social and Bristol Organising Committee for such a wonderful conference. #RenSoc25 I feel inspired and happy to be part of such a thriving community. Special thanks to my Chair, @racheljwillie.bsky.social , and co-panelists - @eprenprof.bsky.social and Matteo Leta.
Excited for tomorrow's talk in panel 5.8. (Scientific and Celestial Writing). Do join us! #Rensoc25 #Bristol #SRS #earlymodern #skystorians #bookhistory #historyofscience #culturalastronomy
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Excited for tomorrow's talk in panel 5.8. (Scientific and Celestial Writing). Do join us! #Rensoc25 #Bristol #SRS #earlymodern #skystorians #bookhistory #historyofscience #culturalastronomy
@srsrensoc.bsky.social Hi :) I'm joining you in Bristol, but I'm not in the starter pack yet :)
June 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
@srsrensoc.bsky.social Hi :) I'm joining you in Bristol, but I'm not in the starter pack yet :)
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Including a CFP of interest for #earlymodern #architecture #histsci #histSTEM
"Building Science: The City as a Site and Object of Knowledge-Making in the Early Modern Period"
"Building Science: The City as a Site and Object of Knowledge-Making in the Early Modern Period"
June 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Including a CFP of interest for #earlymodern #architecture #histsci #histSTEM
"Building Science: The City as a Site and Object of Knowledge-Making in the Early Modern Period"
"Building Science: The City as a Site and Object of Knowledge-Making in the Early Modern Period"
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symbolic image of "coauthoring a book". #academicchatter
January 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
symbolic image of "coauthoring a book". #academicchatter
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"Bee-ing Human: an adventure in digital editing"
Join Cambridge Digital Humanities in The Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge, on June 5 2025, 5-7pm to hear from the distinguished duo, @jennyrichards.bsky.social & Tiago Sousa Garcia. It'll sting if you miss it! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/bee-in...
Join Cambridge Digital Humanities in The Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge, on June 5 2025, 5-7pm to hear from the distinguished duo, @jennyrichards.bsky.social & Tiago Sousa Garcia. It'll sting if you miss it! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/bee-in...
May 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"Bee-ing Human: an adventure in digital editing"
Join Cambridge Digital Humanities in The Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge, on June 5 2025, 5-7pm to hear from the distinguished duo, @jennyrichards.bsky.social & Tiago Sousa Garcia. It'll sting if you miss it! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/bee-in...
Join Cambridge Digital Humanities in The Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge, on June 5 2025, 5-7pm to hear from the distinguished duo, @jennyrichards.bsky.social & Tiago Sousa Garcia. It'll sting if you miss it! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/bee-in...
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💅Self-care, medieval style…
🛌Catch up on sleep
🥗Eat a good diet
🏊Do some exercise
🛀Have a bath
We hope you spent your bank holiday doing at least ONE of these things, which are all recommended in this beautiful manuscript, once owned by Elizabeth of York (MS Ii.5.11). #CuriousCures
🛌Catch up on sleep
🥗Eat a good diet
🏊Do some exercise
🛀Have a bath
We hope you spent your bank holiday doing at least ONE of these things, which are all recommended in this beautiful manuscript, once owned by Elizabeth of York (MS Ii.5.11). #CuriousCures
May 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
💅Self-care, medieval style…
🛌Catch up on sleep
🥗Eat a good diet
🏊Do some exercise
🛀Have a bath
We hope you spent your bank holiday doing at least ONE of these things, which are all recommended in this beautiful manuscript, once owned by Elizabeth of York (MS Ii.5.11). #CuriousCures
🛌Catch up on sleep
🥗Eat a good diet
🏊Do some exercise
🛀Have a bath
We hope you spent your bank holiday doing at least ONE of these things, which are all recommended in this beautiful manuscript, once owned by Elizabeth of York (MS Ii.5.11). #CuriousCures
Delighted to be part of the History of Scholarship and the Global Imagination seminar series (Institute of Philosophy, CAS & Scientiae). My talk looked at how #earlymodern English #almanacs communicated new astronomy & helped shape 17th-c. scientific discourse. youtu.be/hxJ7n3gC6xs #historyofscience
Barbara Bienias: Discussing New Astronomy in Early Modern English Almanacs
YouTube video by Comenius online
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May 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Delighted to be part of the History of Scholarship and the Global Imagination seminar series (Institute of Philosophy, CAS & Scientiae). My talk looked at how #earlymodern English #almanacs communicated new astronomy & helped shape 17th-c. scientific discourse. youtu.be/hxJ7n3gC6xs #historyofscience
For anyone interested in #earlymodern epistemology, my review of Sandrine Parageau's The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France was recently published in Renaissance Quarterly. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France. Sandrine Parageau. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. viii + 254 pp. $30. | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core
The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France. Sandrine Parageau. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. viii + 254 pp. $30. - Volume 77 Issue 4
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May 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
For anyone interested in #earlymodern epistemology, my review of Sandrine Parageau's The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France was recently published in Renaissance Quarterly. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Event at UCL on 29 May 6pm to celebrate publication of Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800. Join @jasminekt.bsky.social & me, in discussion with Simon Werrett & Tim Boon #histsci #earlymodern #18thcentury #londonhistory
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
May 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Event at UCL on 29 May 6pm to celebrate publication of Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800. Join @jasminekt.bsky.social & me, in discussion with Simon Werrett & Tim Boon #histsci #earlymodern #18thcentury #londonhistory
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
“The Library A Fragile History” by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen is excellent indeed. #bookhistory #earlymodernprint #earlymodern #library #manuscripts #bookstudies
May 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“The Library A Fragile History” by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen is excellent indeed. #bookhistory #earlymodernprint #earlymodern #library #manuscripts #bookstudies
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My book reconstructing music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques was published recently. OUP has made the Introduction to Part 1 available, where you can read about the process. Free to read till June 13. Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...
academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...
May 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
My book reconstructing music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques was published recently. OUP has made the Introduction to Part 1 available, where you can read about the process. Free to read till June 13. Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...
academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...
Coffee at Weston Library to finish a superb week of research at Oxford. Thank you and see you soon @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Coffee at Weston Library to finish a superb week of research at Oxford. Thank you and see you soon @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's been a great week of research and rare blue skies in London. Time for Oxford! #research #earlymodern #historyofscience #bookhistory #london #oxford #skyhistorians
February 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
It's been a great week of research and rare blue skies in London. Time for Oxford! #research #earlymodern #historyofscience #bookhistory #london #oxford #skyhistorians
And Newton seems really busy today @britishlibrary.bsky.social #Newton #britishlibrary #research #earlymodern #bookhistory #historyofscience #books
January 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
And Newton seems really busy today @britishlibrary.bsky.social #Newton #britishlibrary #research #earlymodern #bookhistory #historyofscience #books
A home away from home and my favourite view. Ready to start my research trip. @britishlibrary.bsky.social #britishlibrary #books #bookhistory #earlymodern #historyofscience
January 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A home away from home and my favourite view. Ready to start my research trip. @britishlibrary.bsky.social #britishlibrary #books #bookhistory #earlymodern #historyofscience
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"Creation of the Sun and the Moon", Master of Jean de Mandeville, Paris, 1360-70, tempera, gold, ink (Getty Museum).
#astrosphere #history
#astrosphere #history
January 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"Creation of the Sun and the Moon", Master of Jean de Mandeville, Paris, 1360-70, tempera, gold, ink (Getty Museum).
#astrosphere #history
#astrosphere #history
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New article:
“Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press”
#BookHistory #Printing
The study of printing equipment is at the heart of book history, revealing much about the daily challenges faced by printers in the past.
dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...
“Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press”
#BookHistory #Printing
The study of printing equipment is at the heart of book history, revealing much about the daily challenges faced by printers in the past.
dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...
Project MUSE - Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press
dx.doi.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New article:
“Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press”
#BookHistory #Printing
The study of printing equipment is at the heart of book history, revealing much about the daily challenges faced by printers in the past.
dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...
“Punch-Cutting in Colonial Peru: Printers’ Type, Liberal Reform, and the Freedom of the Press”
#BookHistory #Printing
The study of printing equipment is at the heart of book history, revealing much about the daily challenges faced by printers in the past.
dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2...
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Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, the miniature portrait now attributed to Lavinia Fontana hadn't been seen for 200 years #arthistory #earlymodern news.artnet.com/art-world/mi...
Lost Portrait by Lavinia Fontana Resurfaces at Texas Auction | Artnet News
An exquisite miniature portrait by Italian painter Lavinia Fontana was serendipitously rediscovered after turning up at an auction in Texas.
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January 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, the miniature portrait now attributed to Lavinia Fontana hadn't been seen for 200 years #arthistory #earlymodern news.artnet.com/art-world/mi...
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Medieval Treasures of Lithuania Unearthed in Vilnius Cathedral https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/medieval-treasures-of-lithuania-unearthed-in-vilnius-cathedral/ #historysky #Lithuania #Discovery
Medieval Treasures of Lithuania Unearthed in Vilnius Cathedral - Medievalists.net
A cache of medieval royal regalia, hidden for over 80 years, has been uncovered in Vilnius Cathedral, revealing the splendour of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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January 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Medieval Treasures of Lithuania Unearthed in Vilnius Cathedral https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/medieval-treasures-of-lithuania-unearthed-in-vilnius-cathedral/ #historysky #Lithuania #Discovery
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After 85 years, hidden royal treasures have been unearthed at Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania! Among the finds are crowns, medallions, and other priceless artifacts tied to Polish and Lithuanian royalty, including a crown of Alexander Jagiellon, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
January 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
After 85 years, hidden royal treasures have been unearthed at Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania! Among the finds are crowns, medallions, and other priceless artifacts tied to Polish and Lithuanian royalty, including a crown of Alexander Jagiellon, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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Amusing nude supporters for this bookish shield. From Johannes de Sacrobosco’s ‘De sphera’, printed at Paris in 1507 and given to @theul.bsky.social by Osbert Fowler (Registrar of King’s College) in 1655. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Tb.54.3.
January 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Amusing nude supporters for this bookish shield. From Johannes de Sacrobosco’s ‘De sphera’, printed at Paris in 1507 and given to @theul.bsky.social by Osbert Fowler (Registrar of King’s College) in 1655. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Tb.54.3.