Guy Sechrist, PhD
@guysechrist.bsky.social
Early-modern history of science |
Commerce and Science
-Practical Maths
-Natural History
Uni. of Tennessee |
PhD Cambridge HPS
Commerce and Science
-Practical Maths
-Natural History
Uni. of Tennessee |
PhD Cambridge HPS
Pinned
I am very excited to share my recent contribution to Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science. It was such a wonderful experience working with them to get this across the finish line. Very pleased with all of the coloured figures, too!
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Unfolding the multiple lives of a shipbuilding manuscript: Our first Artefact of the Month in 2026 is known as 'Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty' and reveals the interactions between mathematics and practice in the Scientific Revolution:
uhh.de/csmc-aom-35
uhh.de/csmc-aom-35
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Unfolding the multiple lives of a shipbuilding manuscript: Our first Artefact of the Month in 2026 is known as 'Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty' and reveals the interactions between mathematics and practice in the Scientific Revolution:
uhh.de/csmc-aom-35
uhh.de/csmc-aom-35
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The most exciting #BookHistory talk of the season is coming up next week!
Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small!
Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime...
#booksky 🗃️📜📚
Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small!
Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime...
#booksky 🗃️📜📚
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
The most exciting #BookHistory talk of the season is coming up next week!
Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small!
Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime...
#booksky 🗃️📜📚
Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small!
Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime...
#booksky 🗃️📜📚
Ok, I am done - off this rabbit trail. It was fun and I learned more about acoustic machines and their relationship to the practical aspects of shell collection in the 17th century.
A short to add to this, as I went down the rabbit hole:
"Musaeum Kircherianum" on right. "Phonurgia Nova" on left.
"Musaeum Kircherianum" on right. "Phonurgia Nova" on left.
January 14, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Ok, I am done - off this rabbit trail. It was fun and I learned more about acoustic machines and their relationship to the practical aspects of shell collection in the 17th century.
A short to add to this, as I went down the rabbit hole:
"Musaeum Kircherianum" on right. "Phonurgia Nova" on left.
"Musaeum Kircherianum" on right. "Phonurgia Nova" on left.
January 14, 2026 at 10:56 AM
A short to add to this, as I went down the rabbit hole:
"Musaeum Kircherianum" on right. "Phonurgia Nova" on left.
"Musaeum Kircherianum" on right. "Phonurgia Nova" on left.
I also love how this apparatus looks like it has been modeled after a giant conch shell!
Early Modern Medical Imagination 16:
𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ("𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚") 𝟏𝟔𝟕𝟑
from Athanasius Kircher, "Phonurgia Nova" (Kempten: Dreherr, 1673), Tomus II, tab. XVII, f. 303. Vilnius University Library.
#CSMBR #AtahansiusKircher
𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ("𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐎𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚") 𝟏𝟔𝟕𝟑
from Athanasius Kircher, "Phonurgia Nova" (Kempten: Dreherr, 1673), Tomus II, tab. XVII, f. 303. Vilnius University Library.
#CSMBR #AtahansiusKircher
January 14, 2026 at 10:22 AM
I also love how this apparatus looks like it has been modeled after a giant conch shell!
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happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996
January 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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📢 Call for Papers 📢
2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.”
📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026
⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
@davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social
2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.”
📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026
⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
@davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
📢 Call for Papers 📢
2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.”
📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026
⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
@davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social
2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.”
📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026
⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
@davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social
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Interested in the history of cities and how people shape urban space? 🏙️
Join us at the Urban History Evening: Keynote + Social for an
interdisciplinary roundtable, followed by drinks and a networking opportunity
20 January at 5pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4j0zl3i
Join us at the Urban History Evening: Keynote + Social for an
interdisciplinary roundtable, followed by drinks and a networking opportunity
20 January at 5pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4j0zl3i
January 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Interested in the history of cities and how people shape urban space? 🏙️
Join us at the Urban History Evening: Keynote + Social for an
interdisciplinary roundtable, followed by drinks and a networking opportunity
20 January at 5pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4j0zl3i
Join us at the Urban History Evening: Keynote + Social for an
interdisciplinary roundtable, followed by drinks and a networking opportunity
20 January at 5pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4j0zl3i
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🎺 Are you interested in exploring Connections, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World? Then consider submitting a paper to the 20th annual conference, taking place 13 and 14 July 2026 at St John’s College, Durham University!
January 8, 2026 at 11:03 PM
🎺 Are you interested in exploring Connections, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World? Then consider submitting a paper to the 20th annual conference, taking place 13 and 14 July 2026 at St John’s College, Durham University!
Really really really excited to announce that I have finalized my STS (STHS) syllabus for this Spring semester at Tennessee as part of our new interdisciplinary program, artsci.utk.edu/academics/pr... This will be the first year at UTK that an STS course has been taught!
Science, Technology, Health, and Society - College of Arts and Sciences
Science, Technology, Health, and Society Science, Technology, Health, and Society (STHS) explores how science, technology, and medicine shape human societies – and how these societies, through their v...
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January 8, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Really really really excited to announce that I have finalized my STS (STHS) syllabus for this Spring semester at Tennessee as part of our new interdisciplinary program, artsci.utk.edu/academics/pr... This will be the first year at UTK that an STS course has been taught!
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New semester, new books! Check out this wonderful, ever changing, list of books available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #aghist #energy #climate #animalstudies #ecocrit #plantstudies #waterhist #envphil #envtech #histsci #conservation #sustainability
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Books Available to review for H-Environment
Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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January 5, 2026 at 6:35 PM
New semester, new books! Check out this wonderful, ever changing, list of books available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #aghist #energy #climate #animalstudies #ecocrit #plantstudies #waterhist #envphil #envtech #histsci #conservation #sustainability
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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This 2022 monograph by Jane Hwang Degenhardt combines perspectives from #EconomicHistory & #LiteraryStudies of #EnglishRenaissance drama, asking how #Shakespeare, #Marlowe, Heywood, Dekker etc. put ideas of #globalisation on the #EarlyModernStage
🌍
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July 3, 2024 at 8:41 AM
This 2022 monograph by Jane Hwang Degenhardt combines perspectives from #EconomicHistory & #LiteraryStudies of #EnglishRenaissance drama, asking how #Shakespeare, #Marlowe, Heywood, Dekker etc. put ideas of #globalisation on the #EarlyModernStage
🌍
opac.sub.uni-goettin...
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opac.sub.uni-goettin...
Now use it in a sentence:
She deploys zeugma, linking clauses and concepts.
She deploys zeugma, linking clauses and concepts.
We had no choice but to hear you.
You stated your case time and again.
You stated your case time and again.
January 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Now use it in a sentence:
She deploys zeugma, linking clauses and concepts.
She deploys zeugma, linking clauses and concepts.
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My online course 'Welsh #History Early Modern #Wales (c.1485-1815) will be starting soon with Lifelong Learning
at Aberystwyth University. Explore the history of Wales, including your own local and family history, throughout the Early Modern. Visit aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-... for more information.
at Aberystwyth University. Explore the history of Wales, including your own local and family history, throughout the Early Modern. Visit aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-... for more information.
January 7, 2026 at 9:55 AM
My online course 'Welsh #History Early Modern #Wales (c.1485-1815) will be starting soon with Lifelong Learning
at Aberystwyth University. Explore the history of Wales, including your own local and family history, throughout the Early Modern. Visit aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-... for more information.
at Aberystwyth University. Explore the history of Wales, including your own local and family history, throughout the Early Modern. Visit aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-... for more information.
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In "Biologists Unite," Daniel Chiu Suarez provides an inside account of the rise and fall of ecosystem services, a burgeoning field of science dedicated to analyzing the many valuable “services” nature provides to humanity. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255338...
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
In "Biologists Unite," Daniel Chiu Suarez provides an inside account of the rise and fall of ecosystem services, a burgeoning field of science dedicated to analyzing the many valuable “services” nature provides to humanity. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255338...
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Great job in a great department
we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
January 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Great job in a great department
On of the coolest things I have seen all year - literally!
Since posting this 2025 year-long keogram, there have been quite a few questions asking how it was created and what is visible. In this thread I'll try to explain how it all works.
January 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
On of the coolest things I have seen all year - literally!
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I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
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Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...
Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 at University of Cambridge
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...
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It is John Aubrey’s 400th anniversary this year! My next book publishes his Natural History in full for the 1st time. It is not the quaint collection of random anecdotes suggested by the heavily edited 1847 version, but cutting edge c17 science all penned with Aubrey’s characteristic brilliance.
January 4, 2026 at 1:06 PM
It is John Aubrey’s 400th anniversary this year! My next book publishes his Natural History in full for the 1st time. It is not the quaint collection of random anecdotes suggested by the heavily edited 1847 version, but cutting edge c17 science all penned with Aubrey’s characteristic brilliance.
A nice dusting left in the garden.
January 5, 2026 at 9:59 AM
A nice dusting left in the garden.
Impromptu incredi-bab night!
January 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Impromptu incredi-bab night!