Early Modern Graphic Literacies

The Early Modern Graphic Literacies project, funded by @SuomenAkatemia 2021-25, is now on Twitter! We study English printed books from 1500-1800 to find out how graphic devices e.g. tables and diagrams were used in the #EarlyModern period. #BookHistory

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Save the date and please share with an interested colleague! We will organise an international conference 'Reading visual devices in early books' in Turku, Finland, May 15-17 2025. #visualbookconf More information: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/event…

Exciting news! Our team-authored article on classifying graphic devices in #earlymodern printed books has been published! doi.org/10.1080/003932… (OA!)

New guest author entry in our blog! Elina Parkkila writes about graphical content in 18th century grammars and her MA thesis experience: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

Our project has reached the halfway milestone! Read more in our blog: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

THE LISA JARDINE GRANT Deadline 28 September 2023 The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme encourages junior researchers in the humanities and arts to seek to expand their interests in history of science and related interdisciplinary studies royalsociety.org/grants-schemes…

To celebrate the start of the autumn term, we have a new blog entry by a guest author! Saara Kaltiomaa writes about analysing the Zodiac Man figure in her MA thesis: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

Our team is ready for #icehl22! Catch a preview of @UniTurku English dept papers in our blog: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

Material text seminar VI on May 10, 2023 - With @JohannaSkurnik (U Helsinki), Noah Millstone (U Birmingham), and @AnttiIjaes (U Helsinki) For details & registration, go see blogit.utu.fi/materialtext/

Maria Merian was born #OTD in 1647. #Artist, entomologist, #HERper & traveller. Her #book on insects of Surinam is one of our favourites & we often feature it in our tweets. Our #blog looks at her interest in herpetology : zsl.org/news-and-event… #sciart #WomensArt #WomenInSTEM

A new interview in our blog! Read what @jansfi is working on: blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/2023/…

Something a bit different today: an example of the remarkable output of the 14th century cartographer–priest Opicinus de Canistris. #manuscripts #diagrams #mysticism

#CFP deadline approaching. Send your abstracts for our #hybrid conference, ‘Historical Fragments: Making, Breaking, and Remaking’, to materialcultureresearcheca@ed.ac.uk by 15 March!

[New Book] Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance – Editors: Christoph Lüthy & Elena Nicoli (Radboud University) Publisher: Brill, 2022 The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural ev[...] #histsci #histmed ➡ renascimed.hcommons.org/?p=1438

Working on diagrams and lines of thought today and 😍 The significance of stem, branch, leaf, root and light source is fascinating...

A beautiful platform debut from @MuseoGalileo, with amazing #IIIF support on all the critical #LeonardoDaVinci source materials! #HistSci

Check the new website of my research project on #Repertorios in ratiotemporis.com The project tracks the production and uses of #astronomy #astrology #medicine #geography through the early modern Iberian-American world and Europe by using #digitalhumanities #histsci

Mon 20 Feb: @penflourished & Matti Peikola will give a public lecture (in Finnish) on visual chronology in Early Modern English books [forthcoming study by Liira, Peikola, Kaartinen]. // EModGraL-tutkimuksesta suomeksi TUCEMEMS:n yleisöluentosarjassa ⬇️

#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚🌞🌍 Excerpts from Thomas Salusbury’s #17thCentury edition of works by #Galileo (born 15 Feb 1564) #HistSci Collections @OU_Libraries bit.ly/3xnozgz #HistAstro

Save the date! The next Material Text Research Forum seminar (our sixth!) is coming up on 10 May 2023 ✨ More info forthcoming! 📚🌍⚔️We'll be on Zoom as usual - signups will open soon!