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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 7d

🧵🧵The first year of COSMOPOET is now over, and while another year remains, it is already clear that cosmopoetics and the role of poetry and verse in the astral sciences are a large iceberg and we are only seeing its tip for now.

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samuel gessner @sgessner.bsky.social · 18d

This is a wonderful moment of preparation of the upcoming EIDA workshop. I am most grateful for this support, and look very much forward to see the instruments in action! (Even if, as a consequence, we figure out that we got it all wrong with our reconstruction of this arcane instrument…)

COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 18d

It is a Saturday and what better activity than building planicelia together with @sgessner.bsky.social and Florence Somer in preparation for Celestial Scripts on Monday!

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · 18d

It is a Saturday and what better activity than building planicelia together with @sgessner.bsky.social and Florence Somer in preparation for Celestial Scripts on Monday!

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Stephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social · 24d

Just two weeks to go until the #Oxford #astrolabe study day on Saturday 27 September! Learn the making and use of this most iconic scientific instrument – with the bonus that everyone attending gets to assemble and take home their own modern laser-cut astrolabe.

A prototype version of a modern astrolabe designed and produced by Kevin Karney, pinned together with cocktail sticks and held up by string.

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · 24d

There is an EIDA page (eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/2...) but it seems to me that the IFEA one is more up to date.

2025: Celestial Scripts: A Comparative Study of Astrological Diagrams in Manuscripts from the pre and early Modern Periods

Org. Florence Somer (EIDA project, LTE, PSL-Observatoire de Paris) Dates September 22nd-23rd, 2025 Place Instanbul, IFEA (Institut Français des Etudes Anatoliennes) This workshop is part of the EIDA ...

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · Jun 20

Neophytos the Recluse, the Monk Gabriel, Máximos Planudes: manuscripts, authors and Byzantinists and the beautiful Edinburgh! Huge thanks to the organisers and to both libraries: @natlibscot.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh's Main Library!

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 17

I am staying with friends in Dunbar and we go for long dog walks in beautiful places.

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 17

North Berwick is also very beautiful

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 17

Dunbar is very pretty, so I recommend coming!

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 16

Sun(dials) and Sea in Dunbar today

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · Jun 13

The penultimate stop on COSMOPOET's tour before the summer: Edinburgh and a workshop on 'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation'. More details and the program are available here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

'Byzantine authorial manuscripts: Typology, terminology, methodisation'

This workshop takes its cue from two authorial/autograph manuscripts in Edinburgh’s small but fine collection of medieval Greek (Byzantine) manuscripts.

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Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy @chama-dhst.bsky.social · Jun 9

PhD position available in the field of history of astronomy from Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages

Università di Pavia, Italy

Deadline June 30, 2025

More details available at the following webpage: phd.unipv.it/call-41/

Please share!

Call for applications to access PhD courses – 41st cycle – a. y. 2025/2026 – Dottorati di Ricerca

Phd University of Pavia

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Eleonora Andriani @eleonoraandriani.bsky.social · Jun 5

2025: Training week: A global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: new approaches, new digital tools
Just a few photos from the first two days @cosmopoet.bsky.social @stephenaj.bsky.social @tur-alexandre.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social @irht-cnrs.bsky.social

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 2

A star that shone brightly and attracted everyone's attention! 💫

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Stephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social · Jun 2

Now with Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social on Byzantine manuscripts, and here with her (all time?) favorite, an example with many texts in one codex - a library in one volume, with several quadrivial works, but also theological and geomantic

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Jun 2

Good morning!

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · Jun 1

The next stop on the tour starts tomorrow: eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/t... A great team, a great opportunity to collaborate with the @labnf.bsky.social and @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social and an important and invaluable possibility to teach with historical manuscripts and instruments!🤩😍

2025: Training week: A global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: new approaches, new digital tools

org. Matthieu Husson (LTE, PSL-Observatoire de Paris), Alexandre Tur (BnF), Anuj Misra (MPIWG, Berlin, Forschungsgruppe ASTRA) Dates June, 2- June 6, 2025 Places Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ob...

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · May 30

Posting a little late (just before the event), but I still wanted to share this program (which is a new thing for me - started one year ago), as it is something I am glad to be part of and moreover something of personal importance: sphere.cnrs.fr/seminaires/s...

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · May 26

🧵The first workshop on the Spatio-Temporal Profiles of Multi graphic Written Artefacts is now behind us. Lots to think about before the Paris meeting in 2025: about a wide range of temporalities such as astronomical and apocalyptic time, about the importance of patterning, sequencing, and indexing..

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · May 22

Huge thanks to the staff of the SuUB Bremen who took excellent care of me yesterday! 🙏🏻🙏🏻now off to @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social and the UWA for our workshop which starts this afternoon: www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register/wor...

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · May 18

Here is the next Cosmopoet adventure and this one has been cooking for a while together with colleagues Hanna Wimmer (UWA Hamburg) and Matthieu Husson (Observatoire de Paris):https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register/workshop71

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COSMOPOET @cosmopoet.bsky.social · May 9

🧵I have been thinking about quadrivial handbooks in Byzantium for a while and during the past year I have been making shy baby steps towards a study of George Pachymeres' Quadrivium by giving seminar papers on his reading practices.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · May 6

Tonight!

Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · May 4

Good morning and a reminder to #Oxford folks that this Tuesday, May 6, I'll be presenting my artist book(s) Circles of Time: an artistic take on medieval systems of time and how they relate to both Earth and the Heavens. All are welcome! 17:15-18:00 in the TS Elliot Theatre at #MertonCollege.

Title page with the spines of all three handbound volumes

A page from Lunar Time, with a circle of blue and gold on indigo paper around a volvelle of the moon

A page from Solar Time, with a volvelle of the sun at four different times of the year

A page from Planetary Time, showing colourful concenttric rings surrounded with constellations on indigo paper

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Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Apr 21

You are right; I think it is not about handwriting at all. I was just thinking that they have a view onto the entire printed Corpus of Sacrobosco, including diagrams and might have made observations that we will find helpful.

Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social · Apr 20

Perhaps we should ask the Sphaera Project members whether they think we are on to something. Also, I can't believe you never went upstairs during the whole week!🤭

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