Doris Vickers
@dorisvickers.bsky.social
Historian of Astronomy | PhD student @univienna | Etymology task group chairperson IAU WG Star Names | Content manager @astronomyportal
Oh definitely :) The best bakery tour is the "Punschkrapferl" tour, where you try out the Punschkrapfen of every bakery... hehehe!
February 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Oh definitely :) The best bakery tour is the "Punschkrapferl" tour, where you try out the Punschkrapfen of every bakery... hehehe!
Catch me in the newspaper today, if you‘re that way inclined :)
December 28, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Catch me in the newspaper today, if you‘re that way inclined :)
Notre Dame cleaned up nicely! The transformation is gobsmacking!
December 1, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Notre Dame cleaned up nicely! The transformation is gobsmacking!
Brutal! #jonasreindl
"Jede Veränderung, die keine Verbesserung ist, ist eine Verschlechterung." - Adolf Loos
"Jede Veränderung, die keine Verbesserung ist, ist eine Verschlechterung." - Adolf Loos
November 26, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Brutal! #jonasreindl
"Jede Veränderung, die keine Verbesserung ist, ist eine Verschlechterung." - Adolf Loos
"Jede Veränderung, die keine Verbesserung ist, ist eine Verschlechterung." - Adolf Loos
Incredible parhelia yesterday... so bright!
November 24, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Incredible parhelia yesterday... so bright!
My view this morning at 6:30. Humbled and grateful. 💞
November 17, 2024 at 8:35 AM
My view this morning at 6:30. Humbled and grateful. 💞
Live picture from Agrigento ☀️🤗
November 16, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Live picture from Agrigento ☀️🤗
After 5 days of terrible weather, the first glimpse of magnificent Mount Etna!
November 14, 2024 at 11:20 AM
After 5 days of terrible weather, the first glimpse of magnificent Mount Etna!
SEAC XXXI about to start. My poster is looking good ♥️ Looking forward to my talk on Friday as well... I‘m going to talk about astronomical terminology at the beginning of the 17th century.
November 13, 2024 at 9:23 AM
SEAC XXXI about to start. My poster is looking good ♥️ Looking forward to my talk on Friday as well... I‘m going to talk about astronomical terminology at the beginning of the 17th century.
Graz has all their Kepler monuments wrong!
His workplace (the Stiftsschule) is now a shop for sports gear and the statue in the city park honours the laws of planetary motion (which he discovered in Prague and Linz).
His workplace (the Stiftsschule) is now a shop for sports gear and the statue in the city park honours the laws of planetary motion (which he discovered in Prague and Linz).
December 26, 2023 at 11:56 AM
Graz has all their Kepler monuments wrong!
His workplace (the Stiftsschule) is now a shop for sports gear and the statue in the city park honours the laws of planetary motion (which he discovered in Prague and Linz).
His workplace (the Stiftsschule) is now a shop for sports gear and the statue in the city park honours the laws of planetary motion (which he discovered in Prague and Linz).
Several books and articles promised "a text majorly contributing to the development of the German scientific language", published in 1650.
I finally managed to track it down and hey ho, it's full of Latin words (especially the termini technici) 😀
I finally managed to track it down and hey ho, it's full of Latin words (especially the termini technici) 😀
December 18, 2023 at 10:31 AM
Several books and articles promised "a text majorly contributing to the development of the German scientific language", published in 1650.
I finally managed to track it down and hey ho, it's full of Latin words (especially the termini technici) 😀
I finally managed to track it down and hey ho, it's full of Latin words (especially the termini technici) 😀
You gotta love Early Modern title pages 😀
[Erasmus Francisci - Das eröffnete Lust-Haus der Ober- und Nieder-Welt (1676)]
[Erasmus Francisci - Das eröffnete Lust-Haus der Ober- und Nieder-Welt (1676)]
November 29, 2023 at 1:17 PM
You gotta love Early Modern title pages 😀
[Erasmus Francisci - Das eröffnete Lust-Haus der Ober- und Nieder-Welt (1676)]
[Erasmus Francisci - Das eröffnete Lust-Haus der Ober- und Nieder-Welt (1676)]
I'm at the Universtiry Observatory Vienna looking at Jupiter through the 68 cm refractor 🤩
November 17, 2023 at 7:05 PM
I'm at the Universtiry Observatory Vienna looking at Jupiter through the 68 cm refractor 🤩
Happening in Jena right now! So proud 🤩
November 2, 2023 at 12:35 PM
Happening in Jena right now! So proud 🤩
The only sarcophagus decoration I'd accept is this
October 25, 2023 at 2:46 PM
The only sarcophagus decoration I'd accept is this
Next week‘s like: Hellooooo, it is autumn, you know…
October 11, 2023 at 4:56 AM
Next week‘s like: Hellooooo, it is autumn, you know…
TIL: until the 20th century, Copernicus was known to the locals as "Copernicus, the medical doctor". Here's a fragment of the first monument. Notice he's not holding an astronomical instrument, but a plant.
September 9, 2023 at 5:31 PM
TIL: until the 20th century, Copernicus was known to the locals as "Copernicus, the medical doctor". Here's a fragment of the first monument. Notice he's not holding an astronomical instrument, but a plant.
Amazingly, you can also see his coffin.
September 9, 2023 at 3:03 PM
Amazingly, you can also see his coffin.
