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Blogs tagged science

Anita Guerrini

History, animals, science, food

Anita Guerrini

“Stop, here is the empire of death” 24 Oct 2020
The Dance of Death and the first printed skeleton 19 May 2020
The Turducken of Maastricht 20 Mar 2020

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Conciatore

The Life And Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri

Paul Engle

Archiater 12 Feb 2021
Sonnet for a Barber 10 Feb 2021
The Duke's Mouthwash 8 Feb 2021

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Corpus Newtonicum

Reconstructing and Reproducing Isaac Newton's working methods

Cornelis J Schilt

Newton and Chronology: first review! 4 Mar 2022
Back to the basics: Isaac Newton and the Study of Chronology 2 Nov 2021
Soon, very soon… 21 Sep 2021

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Darin Hayton

Historian of Early Modern Science

Darin Hayton

Astrology & Earthquakes 10 Nov 2021
Mis-Adventures in Textbooks 4 Oct 2021
What’s Astrology got to do with it? 23 Sep 2021

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DigitalArk Project Blog

Brent Nelson

Guillermo del Toro: A Modern Appreciator of Curiosities 16 Aug 2018
SSHRC funding for phase two: The Social Network of Early Modern Collectors of Curiosities 29 May 2018
Strange Fish: an opening gambit 16 Jan 2018

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distillatio

Medieval alchemy, chemistry related technology and random things

Guthrie Stewart

Review of “The experimental Fire” by Jennifer Rampling 8 Oct 2022
A dyeing recipe that parallels an alchemical quintessence recipe 9 Feb 2022
On what alchemy was and the gap in public knowledge of alchemy 13 Jan 2020

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Early Modern Experimental Philosophy

A Marsden-funded research project at the University of Otago

Group blog

Antoine Le Grand, Robert Boyle and Speculative Philosophy 16 Jun 2020
Nicolas Malebranche: Critic of Experimental Philosophy 25 Mar 2020
A New Volume on Early Modern Experimental Philosophy 27 Mar 2019

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memorious

researching, writing, and repeating history

Ted McCormick

Why Was This Document Never Written? An Unsource Analysis Exercise 15 Aug 2023
History: What Everyone Needs to Know 7 Jul 2023
Informal Historical Fallacies 3 Feb 2023

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Metropolitan Science

Places, Objects and Cultures of Practice and Knowledge in London, 1600-1800

Project blog

Science in the City – Survey Results in! 21 May 2020
A rapid-turnaround online conference 7 May 2020
Session 8: 16:00-16:45 – Concluding Discussion 7 Apr 2020

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Origins of Science as a Visual Pursuit

Project blog

The Carrara Herbal – Sarah Kyle’s Pandora’s bo 4 Apr 2017
Scientific Illustrations in the Freshwater Biological Association Collections 14 Jul 2016
Deadline 6 July: Funded PhD opportunity on Hans Sloane’s Books 13 Jun 2016

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Out of Time

The musings of a writer with one foot in the age of Shakespeare and the other in the age of "Jersey Shore"

Jennifer Roberts

Gathering Rosebuds 31 Aug 2021
This Old Grey Goose is Kind of a Bitch 10 Nov 2020
On Trying 29 Sep 2020

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Praeludia Microcosmica

Occasional notes on chymistry, theosophy and religious dissent in the early-modern period

Mike A. Zuber

Public Thesis Defence on 20 June: ‘Spiritual Alchemy from the Age of Jacob Boehme... 25 May 2017
Fully Funded PhD Opportunity 15 Jun 2016
Call for Papers: Colouring and Making in Alchemy and Chemistry (7th SHAC Postgraduate... 6 Apr 2016

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Res Obscura

A compendium of obscure things.

Ben Breen

Res Obscura has moved to Substack 14 Sep 2023
1950s Smart Homes and the Longevity of Design 13 Dec 2019
Enlightenment-era Ghosts and the History of Technology 30 Oct 2019

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SKILLNET – Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks

Project website of ERC SKILLNET

Project blog

The social network of Albertine Agnes van Oranje-Nassau 6 Sep 2022
Digital approaches to the Republic of Letters: network research, text mining, and... 8 Jul 2022
Call for papers: SKILLNET International Conference 17-18 Nov 8 Jul 2022

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The Renaissance Mathematicus

history and philosophy of science in the early modern period

Thony C.

From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XI 29 Nov 2023
The Red Line has gone! 29 Nov 2023
Hiatus Interruptus! 25 Nov 2023

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