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Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Nuremberg https://tinyurl.com/4ynbth3x Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of gold- and silversmithing art in the early modern German-speaking lands

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks very much, especially to @hltn.bsky.social who helped me identify this for what it is :)

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 17h

Historians of science: any thoughts on this? I'm intrigued by a "recipe" in a 1505 manuscript, which describes what appears to be the Leidenfrost effect, named after Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, who supposedly was the first to describe the effect in the 18th century 🗃️ #HistSTM #HistSci #EarlyModern 🧪

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 18h

The Leidenfrost effect! But wow is this ever an early description of it.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 17h

I'm still not doing it, haha.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 17h

I’ll take the author’s word for it!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, I won’t be reconstructing this recipe.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 17h

I’d say, give it go :)

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 18h

I'd be curious to know if anyone has ever found an earlier description of this effect #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 18h

The Leidenfrost effect! But wow is this ever an early description of it.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, I was not familiar with the concept! Thank you!
On a different page, the author also notes the same recipe for reaching into molten lead.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 18h

As the author assures us on the previous page, if you put your hands in cold water first, "so dünckt dich doch sey neurt loe" (it will only seem lukewarm to you).

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 18h

A "recipe" from a 1505 manuscript:

"wiltü in hais pech griefn halt die hent wol in kalt wasser je kelt je peser dan grief dorein"

ENG: If you want to 'reach into' hot pitch, then hold your hands in cold water - the colder, the better - then reach into it

Any volunteers? 😳 #HistSci #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Good!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

Gosh, Thony, that's awful! I hope you get well soon. If there's anything I can do, don't hesitate to let me know. I'm not that far away.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 2d

I have a meeting with a curator coming up, who just sent me an invitation with the title "Schrauben und anderes" (screws and other things) and this just perfectly captures my life right now 🔩 #HistTech #HistSci #EarlyModern 🗃️

An early modern brass screw whose head is shaped in the form of two small feathers

Blued and decorated head of an early modern iron screw

Detail of an early modern iron screw, framed by an etched metal surface.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 4d

YES! Stephen @stephenaj.bsky.social
tagged me when you posted these pictures a few months ago. Thank you for reminding me, because now I can save them with the new bookmark function ❤️

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 4d

This is helpful thinking, thank you! I've indeed been searching for them in assembled objects depicted in paintings, but I have had no luck so far, so these references are useful. Many thanks!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 4d

#SkyStorians, I'm looking for #MedievalSky and #EarlyModern paintings, engravings & other visual sources that depict screws.
(N.B. I'm not looking for depictions of screws in technical sources on this topic).
If anyone has come or comes across them, I'd love to know! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 4d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 7d

A friend's applying for a postdoc which expects an extensive publication record. I've seen grad students who focus on publishing over developing their diss & the 1st thing that goes out the window is quality. Why do we glorify & celebrate "productivity" over quality? @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 10d

No problem at all. There's no rush :)

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 11d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 11d

* Not that of the vacuum cleaner obviously.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 11d

I could listen to that sound all day!

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 11d

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 11d

Hear hear!