You see a European artist's worktable from mid seventeenth century. These worktables were places where paper was used, a place where ink, quills, and paper was stored and handy.

Let's have a closer look in a short 🧵 for friends of #earlymodern #paperhistory, #artsky #arthist and #skystorians 🗃️

4. Notre Dame’s axis isn’t straight: it tilts a bit to the left after the crossing. Many medieval cathedrals have this, esp in France.
I think that that tilt is meant to symbolise / mimic Christ’s head tilting as he was unable to hold it up / had died on the Cross.

Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.

1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.

If there is any intellectual, cultural, of science, legal, or other historian out there who can point out any study reflecting on early modern court records as sources and the reliability/usefulness of the written records of the witnesses' words/mediation of the secretary, I would b forever grateful

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Good news this.

Big news for historians of astronomy, a new open-access edition & translation of the Arabic version of Ptolemy’s Planetary Hypotheses, including a terrific historical & contextual introduction: ptolemaeus.badw.de/publications #medievalsky #histsci #histastro

We are please to announce that Professor Lauren Kassell will be delivering the 2024 SSHM Lecture
'Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine'
📅 Mon 2 December
🕰️ 4:00-5.30 pm (UK time)
Online - All Welcome
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Historians of science out there, a remainder that the call for standalone papers for the European Society for the History of Science 2024 Conference is still open, until February 29.
Let's meet in Barcelona next September!

I made a joke about the defendant in one the trials of the Spanish Inquisition I analyse, who said he did not know it was forbidden to invoke the Devil and speak with him, and Reviewer 2 did not like it.
But it was funny!
Now I have to rewrite that part of the article.

I've just read that tweet about an author receiving the proofs to correct after seventeen years! of submitting the essay, and I am starting to worry it might have been rush of me to ask a journal about the article I sent them one year ago.