Celine Camps
@celinecamps.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Nuremberg
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Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
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Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
Jim & Anne Secord. I was an MA student working at the MPI, 10+ years ago. He'd given a talk & I was behind them in line for tea & coffee. They could've spoken to anyone but instead asked about my work & spoke to me like an equal. I'm sure they've forgotten me but I'll always remember their kindness.
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Jim & Anne Secord. I was an MA student working at the MPI, 10+ years ago. He'd given a talk & I was behind them in line for tea & coffee. They could've spoken to anyone but instead asked about my work & spoke to me like an equal. I'm sure they've forgotten me but I'll always remember their kindness.
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JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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Spilled my coffee travel mug in my backpack this morning - can you imagine the horror - so let’s just say some time with these wonderful #earlymodern miniature books was very much needed!
1) Gregorian Calendar (1585)
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
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1) Gregorian Calendar (1585)
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
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October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Spilled my coffee travel mug in my backpack this morning - can you imagine the horror - so let’s just say some time with these wonderful #earlymodern miniature books was very much needed!
1) Gregorian Calendar (1585)
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
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1) Gregorian Calendar (1585)
#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜
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#HyveMind, who can help with this: I need to insert 30+ images into a Google Document, each with a minimum resolution of 300 DPI. I have found a program with which I can change the DPI to 300, but as soon as I insert that image in GDocs, its dimensions (i.e. width and height) are too big ... 1/
November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
#HyveMind, who can help with this: I need to insert 30+ images into a Google Document, each with a minimum resolution of 300 DPI. I have found a program with which I can change the DPI to 300, but as soon as I insert that image in GDocs, its dimensions (i.e. width and height) are too big ... 1/
To all male scholars who try to use their seniority to discourage me from continuing my research or presenting on my topic & to problematize my access to sources, because they want to work on the topic themselves after learning about my work: You picked the wrong person. I will not step aside.
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
To all male scholars who try to use their seniority to discourage me from continuing my research or presenting on my topic & to problematize my access to sources, because they want to work on the topic themselves after learning about my work: You picked the wrong person. I will not step aside.
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JOB : Associate Conservator, Wooden Objects, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY ➡️ metmuseum.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/metmus...
October 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
JOB : Associate Conservator, Wooden Objects, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY ➡️ metmuseum.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/metmus...
I've been looking forward to this conference on the "Unbekanntes Kirchensilber" for weeks. So excited and grateful I can join via Zoom 🤍 Thanks a million for organizing @zikg.eu
#EarlyModern #ArtHistory 🏛️
#EarlyModern #ArtHistory 🏛️
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I've been looking forward to this conference on the "Unbekanntes Kirchensilber" for weeks. So excited and grateful I can join via Zoom 🤍 Thanks a million for organizing @zikg.eu
#EarlyModern #ArtHistory 🏛️
#EarlyModern #ArtHistory 🏛️
An archivist just told me about this great website for German watermarks. Thanks to this website, I was able to identify a watermark on an #EarlyModern archival record and say more about the document's approximate date (which was unknown) 📜 #BookHistory 📚 🗃️ #MedievalSky
shorturl.at/neVQ6
shorturl.at/neVQ6
shorturl.at
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
An archivist just told me about this great website for German watermarks. Thanks to this website, I was able to identify a watermark on an #EarlyModern archival record and say more about the document's approximate date (which was unknown) 📜 #BookHistory 📚 🗃️ #MedievalSky
shorturl.at/neVQ6
shorturl.at/neVQ6
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The absolutely stunning 15th century frontage to the former White Hart Inn, on the market square in Newark, Nottinghamshire 🤩
More photos and link to the history/architectural development of the building in a short thread below…
More photos and link to the history/architectural development of the building in a short thread below…
October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The absolutely stunning 15th century frontage to the former White Hart Inn, on the market square in Newark, Nottinghamshire 🤩
More photos and link to the history/architectural development of the building in a short thread below…
More photos and link to the history/architectural development of the building in a short thread below…
*correction: portrait. Not self-portrait. Nevertheless, I think it's marvelous.
I will use any excuse to bring up Dürer's self-portrait again when talking about his drawings.
October 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
*correction: portrait. Not self-portrait. Nevertheless, I think it's marvelous.
And for those who like this as much as I do: in Nuremberg, they sell it as a postcard and bookmark.
October 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
And for those who like this as much as I do: in Nuremberg, they sell it as a postcard and bookmark.
My favorite prof, mentor, & committee member Martha Howell wrote a new book & I'm psyched it's out:
"Making Merchants. The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany."
Undoubtedly of interest to many #SkyStorians on the #Medievalsky & #EarlyModern 🗃️ feeds.
l1nq.com/6gxOL
"Making Merchants. The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany."
Undoubtedly of interest to many #SkyStorians on the #Medievalsky & #EarlyModern 🗃️ feeds.
l1nq.com/6gxOL
Making Merchants
Cambridge Core - Social and Population History - Making Merchants
www.cambridge.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My favorite prof, mentor, & committee member Martha Howell wrote a new book & I'm psyched it's out:
"Making Merchants. The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany."
Undoubtedly of interest to many #SkyStorians on the #Medievalsky & #EarlyModern 🗃️ feeds.
l1nq.com/6gxOL
"Making Merchants. The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany."
Undoubtedly of interest to many #SkyStorians on the #Medievalsky & #EarlyModern 🗃️ feeds.
l1nq.com/6gxOL
Welcoming the technology on the left with open arms after having spent 4 hours looking at the one on the right (and having aged 50 years in the process). 📜 #HistTech
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Welcoming the technology on the left with open arms after having spent 4 hours looking at the one on the right (and having aged 50 years in the process). 📜 #HistTech
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Does anyone have recommendations on sources concerning South Atlantic ocean currents and navigational routes in the 16th century? I see a lot of maps showing how Europeans got to Brazil, but not the return voyage. #earlymodern #histsci #skystorians
October 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Does anyone have recommendations on sources concerning South Atlantic ocean currents and navigational routes in the 16th century? I see a lot of maps showing how Europeans got to Brazil, but not the return voyage. #earlymodern #histsci #skystorians
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So happy to see this book in print! This project has been such a pleasure
La Sfera / The Globe: Cosmology, Science, and Geography by Gregorio Dati, Carrie Benes (Editor), Laura Ingallinella (Editor): Compare Prices on New & Used Copies | ISBN: 9781599104812 - Alibris share.google/is0A9ix9tp27...
La Sfera / The Globe: Cosmology, Science, and Geography by Gregorio Dati, Carrie Benes (Editor), Laura Ingallinella (Editor): Compare Prices on New & Used Copies | ISBN: 9781599104812 - Alibris share.google/is0A9ix9tp27...
La Sfera / The Globe: Cosmology, Science, and Geography in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean
Dati's La sfera/The Globe presents an Italian/English edition of this treatise on geography, cosmology, astronomy, and astrology, composed in the 1420s in Florence. Illustrated by dozens of color ex...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
So happy to see this book in print! This project has been such a pleasure
La Sfera / The Globe: Cosmology, Science, and Geography by Gregorio Dati, Carrie Benes (Editor), Laura Ingallinella (Editor): Compare Prices on New & Used Copies | ISBN: 9781599104812 - Alibris share.google/is0A9ix9tp27...
La Sfera / The Globe: Cosmology, Science, and Geography by Gregorio Dati, Carrie Benes (Editor), Laura Ingallinella (Editor): Compare Prices on New & Used Copies | ISBN: 9781599104812 - Alibris share.google/is0A9ix9tp27...
But nothing beats the magic of Nuremberg in all its early-morning snow-covered winter glory ❄️ 🤍
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
But nothing beats the magic of Nuremberg in all its early-morning snow-covered winter glory ❄️ 🤍
Fog-covered Nuremberg on early-morning fall days looks unreal 🍂
October 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Fog-covered Nuremberg on early-morning fall days looks unreal 🍂
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FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys
www.history.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good!
🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️
🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️
October 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
A magnificent exhibition: "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600," showcasing stunning #MedievalSky & #EarlyModern objects—paintings, engravings, goldsmithing & scientific objects, woodcuts, books (of hours), architectural models, sculptures, armor, textiles, coins. It's SO good!
🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️
🗃️ #HistSci #ArtHistory 🏛️
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 🧪
The Leidenfrost effect! But wow is this ever an early description of it.
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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 🧪
I'd be curious to know if anyone has ever found an earlier description of this effect #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
The Leidenfrost effect! But wow is this ever an early description of it.
October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I'd be curious to know if anyone has ever found an earlier description of this effect #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
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 🗃️
"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 🗃️
October 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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 🗃️
"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 🗃️
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 🗃️
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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 🗃️
#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
(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
October 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#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
(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