COSMOPOET
@cosmopoet.bsky.social
COSMOPOET is MSCA PF research project by Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social. It is funded by the European Union and hosted by Ghent University. COSMOPOET aims to rethink the relationship between poetry and astronomy in the space of late Byzantine schools.
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Séminaire – Histoire des sciences, histoire du texte - Laboratoire SPHERE - UMR 7219
Diagrams-Illustrations Organized by Carole Hofstetter Speakers : Carole Hofstetter (SPHERE, Université Paris Cité et CNRS) Roles and functions of diagrams in mathematical contexts from the perspective of Byzantine readers Abstract : In mathematical treatises, diagrams and illustrations play a central role in structuring discourse and developing reasoning. These visual devices actively contribute to the formulation and […]
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In November, COSMOPOET invites you to: 1) on 13 Nov, a History of Science, History of Text seminar day on Diagrams and Illustrations (sphere.cnrs.fr/en/event/sem...), both in Paris and on Zoom; and 2) an in-person double HPIMS lunch lecture session in Gent on 21 Nov www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/n... ✨🌌📖✨
In November, COSMOPOET invites you to: 1) on 13 Nov, a History of Science, History of Text seminar day on Diagrams and Illustrations (sphere.cnrs.fr/en/event/sem...), both in Paris and on Zoom; and 2) an in-person double HPIMS lunch lecture session in Gent on 21 Nov www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/n... ✨🌌📖✨
Séminaire – Histoire des sciences, histoire du texte - Laboratoire SPHERE - UMR 7219
Diagrams-Illustrations Organized by Carole Hofstetter Speakers : Carole Hofstetter (SPHERE, Université Paris Cité et CNRS) Roles and functions of diagrams in mathematical contexts from the perspective of Byzantine readers Abstract : In mathematical treatises, diagrams and illustrations play a central role in structuring discourse and developing reasoning. These visual devices actively contribute to the formulation and […]
sphere.cnrs.fr
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
In November, COSMOPOET invites you to: 1) on 13 Nov, a History of Science, History of Text seminar day on Diagrams and Illustrations (sphere.cnrs.fr/en/event/sem...), both in Paris and on Zoom; and 2) an in-person double HPIMS lunch lecture session in Gent on 21 Nov www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/n... ✨🌌📖✨
Too tired to make any meaningful posts right now, just wanted to say a huge Thank you! to everyone involved!! I am so grateful, so impressed by everyone's ideas, kindness and support and so sorry it all went so quickly! Good night to all cosmopoets!!
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Too tired to make any meaningful posts right now, just wanted to say a huge Thank you! to everyone involved!! I am so grateful, so impressed by everyone's ideas, kindness and support and so sorry it all went so quickly! Good night to all cosmopoets!!
Day 2: almost set up
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Day 2: almost set up
Not many photos from today, except for the inspiring Wim Verbaal and the astonishing Liber Floridus. Main take away: we really need to rethink what "didactic" means in different contexts, but also when "numbers" encode meter & poems act as instances of creation of worlds - fictional but also real.
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Not many photos from today, except for the inspiring Wim Verbaal and the astonishing Liber Floridus. Main take away: we really need to rethink what "didactic" means in different contexts, but also when "numbers" encode meter & poems act as instances of creation of worlds - fictional but also real.
Preparing the goodie bags🎁🎁 for event.ugent.be/registration... #msca #ugent #historyofscience #byzsky #medievalsky #cosmopoetics
October 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Preparing the goodie bags🎁🎁 for event.ugent.be/registration... #msca #ugent #historyofscience #byzsky #medievalsky #cosmopoetics
More walking, more "cosmic" images of Ghent 👩🏻🚀🎈🎈
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
More walking, more "cosmic" images of Ghent 👩🏻🚀🎈🎈
My starry walks around Ghent continue. 💫💫This time with the discovery of this celestial globe (no stars, just celestial circles but still) - part of the sculptural composition of the rococo pulpit in St Bavo's cathedral designed by Laurent Delvaux. 🤩🌐✨🌌
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
My starry walks around Ghent continue. 💫💫This time with the discovery of this celestial globe (no stars, just celestial circles but still) - part of the sculptural composition of the rococo pulpit in St Bavo's cathedral designed by Laurent Delvaux. 🤩🌐✨🌌
🧵🧵In the very first instalment of this guest author and fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣series, it is my pleasure to introduce Stamatina Mastorakou (@smasto.bsky.social), the October Cosmopoet! Here's what she had to share about her chosen poem:
Byzantine Silver Plate Depicting Aratus and Urania
This Byzantine silver plate is on view at the Institute as part of the exhibition "Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity".
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October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🧵🧵In the very first instalment of this guest author and fellow stargazer 🤩💫and skywalker 🌌👣series, it is my pleasure to introduce Stamatina Mastorakou (@smasto.bsky.social), the October Cosmopoet! Here's what she had to share about her chosen poem:
🧵🧵As much as I find the research I am doing for this project fascinating and fun for me to do, I have been thinking that I am missing the collaborative community-building and fostering element that is usually not at the core of individual postdoc projects.
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🧵🧵As much as I find the research I am doing for this project fascinating and fun for me to do, I have been thinking that I am missing the collaborative community-building and fostering element that is usually not at the core of individual postdoc projects.
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A casual walk in Ghent and bam! - an armillary sphere ! 🤩🌌💫 @cosmopoet.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A casual walk in Ghent and bam! - an armillary sphere ! 🤩🌌💫 @cosmopoet.bsky.social
🧵🧵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.
October 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🧵🧵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.
Reposted by COSMOPOET
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…)
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!
September 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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…)
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!
September 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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!
#scientiae2025 ends with a rare visit to the Istanbul university observatory. A telescope that takes a record of the solar spots each they for more than 20000 consecutive days - an impressive tradition and continuity 🤩
September 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#scientiae2025 ends with a rare visit to the Istanbul university observatory. A telescope that takes a record of the solar spots each they for more than 20000 consecutive days - an impressive tradition and continuity 🤩
Second paper for this morning: Gaye Danisan's wonderful project on Ottoman paper instruments #scientiae2025
September 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Second paper for this morning: Gaye Danisan's wonderful project on Ottoman paper instruments #scientiae2025
How wonderful to start the day with Samuel Gessner's call to take and to study the instruments preserved in libraries seriously 🤩 #scientiae2025
September 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
How wonderful to start the day with Samuel Gessner's call to take and to study the instruments preserved in libraries seriously 🤩 #scientiae2025
Astrolabes greet us in the metro already🤩
September 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Astrolabes greet us in the metro already🤩
The vacation is now over and autumn has arrived in Ghent, which is why next week COSMOPOET is travelling south to Istanbul for the annual Scientiae conference (eventedebiyat.istanbul.edu.tr/event/2/page...) and the Celestial Scripts workshop (ifea-istanbul.net/evenements/w...) 🤓😎💫!
Scientiae 2025: Istanbul, 16-19 September, Annual Conference
The 2025 annual meeting of Scientiae will be held in Istanbul from 16 to 19 September 2025 in collaboration with the Department of the History of Science at Istanbul University. Situated at the intell...
eventedebiyat.istanbul.edu.tr
September 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The vacation is now over and autumn has arrived in Ghent, which is why next week COSMOPOET is travelling south to Istanbul for the annual Scientiae conference (eventedebiyat.istanbul.edu.tr/event/2/page...) and the Celestial Scripts workshop (ifea-istanbul.net/evenements/w...) 🤓😎💫!
1932. Federico García Lorca plays The Shadow. How about the lunar-phases-adjacent starry sky diagram behind🤩
June 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
1932. Federico García Lorca plays The Shadow. How about the lunar-phases-adjacent starry sky diagram behind🤩
The final conference before the summer: "Non-expert dealings with science in the ancient and pre-modern Mediterranean" at the University of Barcelona. I am very tired by now but this one I really didn't want to miss: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/su...
SCIENTIA conference
| Suhayl. Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
revistes.ub.edu
June 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The final conference before the summer: "Non-expert dealings with science in the ancient and pre-modern Mediterranean" at the University of Barcelona. I am very tired by now but this one I really didn't want to miss: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/su...
The next stop for Cosmopoet brings us back to Gent and a Saturday workshop organised by the MELA project on "Teaching and Learning Greek in Byzantium 3: Towards a Diachronic Codicology of Composite Manuscripts": event.ugent.be/registration...
Event Registration
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June 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The next stop for Cosmopoet brings us back to Gent and a Saturday workshop organised by the MELA project on "Teaching and Learning Greek in Byzantium 3: Towards a Diachronic Codicology of Composite Manuscripts": event.ugent.be/registration...
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!
June 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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!
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.
hca.ed.ac.uk
June 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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...