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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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Maastricht – The Hague – Utrecht – Berlin – New York – Nuremberg –

Getting excited for the next stop: Munich 🤩
The Deutsches Museum in Munich Neues Rathaus (new town hall) in Munich
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I'm sure I will (already am). I can answer the question you raise in footnote 30, if Turner ever used the term 'eyeballing' in print: He does, in the appendix you cite. See the screenshot attached. I spotted it while looking at Turner's work for the ivory nocturnal (after your recommendation) :)
Screenshot of an excerpt from Turner's work: "left to the reader. This is because faith in scientific studies has faded, and more reliance has had to be placed on looking for characteristic signs of the artist's style, method, and handiwork—in fact, what is sometimes called 'eye-baling'. This is exactly the process that, in my experience, has given the greatest success in attributing unsigned mathematical instruments to a particular maker."
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I recently joined the Scientific Instrument Society and they sent me one of their recent bulletins as a welcoming gift. I am so pleased to open it and to see @stephenaj.bsky.social's article on Astrolabes on the first page ❤️ #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #HistSci #HistTech #HisSTM 🗃️
Page in the bulletin from the Scientific Instrument Society showing the article "Gerard Turner Memorial Lecture. Back to the Future: New Approaches to the Astrolabe" by Stephen Johnston. A photograph of the front and reverse of an astrolabe is included in the upper right corner of the article.
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Is this what you mean by change the layout in GDocs? I don't see any options for changing the "layout".
Screenshot from Google Docs, showing the details on an image's size.
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I'm not following you, I'm sorry (I'm sure it's me; I'm terrible with this stuff). So you're saying that if I insert an image in GDocs that is 300 DPI and then change its dimensions (making it smaller), the DPI will be bigger? B/c the screenshots from my free software suggest the opposite happens?
Screenshot of a software program showing the width, height and DPI of an image. Screenshot of a software program showing the width, height and DPI of an image.
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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 🏛️
Screenshot of the presentation by Anna Lena Frank on the "Unbekanntes Kirchensilber" showing a collection of silversmithing objects in the background.
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Don’t you just love microfilm 💀It’s like I’m looking at it cross eyed.
Photograph of the screen of a microfilm reader showing part of an early modern archival record, hardly legible.
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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How does it work? See the watermark. It looks like P w/ shield, so I went to Letters/ciphers > P > Free gothic form w/ mark >
Coats of arms > No additional mark > Above (upright) > Bow end behind shaft > Shaft end broken. And voilà, several records from the mid-to-late sixteenth century w/ the mark.
Watermark in an early modern document. Screenshot of a website showing the same watermark on the left, with its respective metadata on the right
October 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I also spotted it in Berlin (though this one doesn't include the "Albrecht").
A set of cards, including (at the center) one of a drawing by Albrecht Dürer, showing the face of a figure in a cartoon-like manner.
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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And for those who like this as much as I do: in Nuremberg, they sell it as a postcard and bookmark.
A postcard and bookmark with a drawing of Dürer (his self-portrait) and the name "Albrecht" written underneath it.
October 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I will use any excuse to bring up Dürer's self-portrait again when talking about his drawings.
A drawing by Dürer (of himself) included in a letter to Pirckheimer. Source: https://www.merkur.de/bayern/albrecht-duerer-kritzelei-brief-erstes-emoji-zr-5849745.html#google_vignette
October 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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This reading room is divine, I’m surrounded by old books, manuscripts and trees.
A reading room with desks and and big windows showing the trees outside
October 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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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
A big early modern book A microfilm reader
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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On a different note, I had to think of you and the astrolabe we looked at here when I was in Dresden and found another "annotation" on a sixteenth-century clock (reminding me of the '1542' inscribed in the astrolabe).
Close up of a sixteenth-century clock, showing the inscription 'Venus' underneath the clock face.
October 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The fog on the other side of the church was so thick that my phone could only make grainy pictures, making it look like I traveled back in time and took a picture of the St. Sebaldus in the 1980s. It looks majestic! 🤍
The St. Sebaldus church in Nuremberg, covered in fog. Photo taken by me on October 14, 2025.
October 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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But nothing beats the magic of Nuremberg in all its early-morning snow-covered winter glory ❄️ 🤍
A couple of early modern buildings in Nuremberg covered in snow. Photo taken by me in 2023 A couple of early modern buildings in Nuremberg covered in snow. Photo taken by me in 2023 An early modern bridge in Nuremberg covered in snow. Photo taken by me in 2023
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The fog is so thick, you cannot even see the castle anymore, usually towering in the distance.
A street in Nuremberg, covered in fog. The same street in Nuremberg as shown in the previous picture, except now you can see the castle in the far background
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Fog-covered Nuremberg on early-morning fall days looks unreal 🍂
The St. Sebaldus church in Nuremberg covered in fog with two trees in front of it whose leaves show a gamut of fall colors, from dark green to yellow, orange, and red.
October 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Not displayed separately, alas (they rarely ever are). Though I did manage to spot some in the goldsmithing objects, by hanging upside down, bending over backwards, sitting on the floor, and using reflections and small mirrors 🙃
The underside of a goldsmithing object shaped in the form of a ship, showing the screws with which it is assembled. The bottom of an early modern goldsmithing object, photographed through a small mirror, showing a screw (encircled in red). A close up of the foot/stand of an early modern globe made from gilded brass, showing the screws encircled in red (the two screws at the center may also be pins, though the two holes on the other side of the object seem to be threaded).
October 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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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 🏛️
Entrance to the new exhibition "Nürnberg Global, 1300-1600" at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. Albrecht Dürer's famous woodcut of the Rhinoceros. Partially disassembled Schlüsselfelder Ship from 1503, to show how the nef can be filled with wine. The Archangel Raphael and Tobias in limewood made by Veit Stoß, 1516.
October 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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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 🗃️
An early modern brass screw whose head is shaped in the form of two small feathers Close up of an early modern iron screw Blued and decorated head of an early modern iron screw Detail of an early modern iron screw, framed by an etched metal surface.
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Good grief. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. #SkyStorians 🗃️

“A holistic view of the relevant evidence points to the opposite conclusion, one which has now been corroborated by AI analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way. [...]”
A quote in from the linked article, reading: "“A holistic view of the relevant evidence points to the opposite conclusion, one which has now been corroborated by AI analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way. The Badminton version is an astonishing painting. It takes your breath away when you see it.” The phrase "[...] corroborated by AI analysis, which is objective, unlike the subjective opinions of scholars which can get in the way" has been highlighted.
September 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Historians of art/metalworking/craft: How would you call this part of an #EarlyModern goblet shown in the pics? (see the original post for the full object). A German conservator described it as "Kranz," though I'm not sure 'crown'/'wreath' works in English. Any thoughts? #SkyStorians
Detail of a goblet Piece of metalwork from an early modern goblet.
September 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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It's also the cover image for Nicholas Jones' "Staging Habla de Negros. Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain"
tinyurl.com/yr6sbcv7
A copy of Nicholas' R. Jones' book "Staging Habla de Negros. Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain."
September 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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An die Deutsch-Muttersprachler: Wie nennt man dieses Werkzeug ('vice' auf Englisch) heutzutage auf Deutsch? Mir wurde kürzlich, ohne weitere Erklärung, gesagt: „Schraubstock“ stimmt nicht, oder ist unüblich. Gibt es ein anderes, gebräuchlicheres Wort für dieses Werkzeug? #HistTech
A picture of a vice
September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM