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Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science and Technology, Art, & Material Culture | Columbia University, New York |📍Nuremberg https://tinyurl.com/4ynbth3x Studying screws 🔩 & the assemblage of goldsmithing art in early modern Nuremberg

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

#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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Congratulations!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 8d

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

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 8d

* Not that of the vacuum cleaner obviously.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 8d

I could listen to that sound all day!

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

Hear hear!

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 9d

(just to be clear, with "cool things" I wasn't referring to that horrific light show—I only care for the clock)

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 13d

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs!

Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House

Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 9d

📚 Hybrid book talk of Seth Kimmel's "The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain."

📅 October 22, 2025
🕕 6:15pm EDT
📍Heyman Center, Columbia University & Online

More info & registration: sofheyman.org/events/celeb...

#HistSci #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #SkyStorians 🗃️

Celebrating Recent Work by Seth Kimmel | Event

The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain by Seth Kimmel A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total…

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 9d

@karlgalle.bsky.social Stop sharing cool things that I need to see but don't have time or money for 😬

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 9d

Ah, sorry, haha! :)

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 9d

Paging @jddelleluche.bsky.social & @hrehistorian.bsky.social

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 9d

Dear historians, some of you often think about the Roman Empire, but what about the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation? In an article with Tobias Winnerling, we ask where we can find the #HRE in today’s pop culture. What should we not forget? All tips welcome! #earlymodern #medievalsky #history

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 10d

In what sense religious dogma? Because people use those fasteners in their replication when they weren't used at the time the original object was constructed?

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 11d

Good grief. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. #SkyStorians 🗃️

“A holistic view of the relevant evidence points to the opposite conclusion, one which has now been corroborated by AI analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way. [...]”

A quote in from the linked article, reading: "“A holistic view of the relevant evidence points to the opposite conclusion, one which has now been corroborated by AI analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way. The Badminton version is an astonishing painting. It takes your breath away when you see it.” The phrase "[...] corroborated by AI analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way" has been highlighted.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 11d

I think more generally, the answer to that question also depends on the location, the type of object for which the screw was meant to be used, as well as its purpose. Screws in wooden furniture seem to have become more common much later on. Not sure if this is helpful.

Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 11d

In that case, I think you're asking when they started using screws instead of nails? Welcome to the Q of my dissertation 🙂
Many indeed point to Agricola but I've found earlier refs to wood screws in non-printed sources from the 1480s & early 1500s, though if they replaced nails I don't know.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 11d

Vind ik ook. Het is dat ze zoiets niet in Duitsland hebben (althans, niet dat ik weet), anders zou ik ze hier ook kopen!

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 12d

Mijn moeder koopt ze altijd als ze langskomen!

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