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In case you missed the publication of our new issue right before Christmas, do check out our interdisciplinary issue on printing privileges in #Earlymodern Low Countries #Skystorians

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So delighted that this book is out and honored to be part of it. All the chapters are so exciting! Check out my new chapter on early modern woodcutting knowledge. It was great to document and reflect on my past experimentations. More questions also emerged from this chapter for future work.

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@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now! It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life. Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social - Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, & Material Culture Ed. @sarahabendall.bsky.social & @serenadyer.bsky.social aup.nl/en/book/9789... Read the intro (no paywall!) here: assets.ctfassets.net/4wrp2um278k7...

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Check out our new special issue edited by Marius Buning and Marlise Rijks on printing privileges in early modern Low Countries emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1...

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Super happy to see Elizabeth Bacon Eager's comments in "Panorama" about Andrea Pappas' book "Embroidering the Landscape"! Read the full review at journalpanorama.org/article/embr... Visit the @lhartbooks.bsky.social website for more info about the book: www.lundhumphries.com/products/emb...

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I talked about some of the stunning botanical books in the Teylers collections on day 2 of VisionLab! We focused on the various book formats and how the physical sizes of the picture planes affected the depictions of plants & microscopic observations. #VisualizingtheUnknown

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Jumping right into action with day 1 of VisionLab, in which we looked at books on butterflies & moths at the Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Discussions centered around how to visualize microscopic observations of the insects through prints and related challenges. #VisualizingtheUnknown

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Really excited to share that, as of today, I will be working as a postdoc researcher in the project Visualizing the Unknown, which investigates early modern scientific observation, representation, and communication of microscopic studies and images! visualizingtheunknown.com

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Als je de Nederlandse wetenschap wil afbranden, mag je hopen dat er daarna niets meer in de fik gaat. #DoeHetNiet

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Can’t believe I haven’t announced this here, yet: Out now: volume 7 of our @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series Emergence of Natural History. "Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History" ed. by Dr. V.E. Mandrij & Giulia Simonini. #OA #EntHist #ArtHist #HistSTM #HistNatHist 📗🗃️🖼️

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This block was very suitable for practicing cutting curved lines. Image source: Acanthide from Conrad Gessner's Historiae Animalium Liber III. qui est de Avium natura (1585).

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Herbarium? is a project I recently completed. The idea and material collecting process started in 2022 when I was looking into early modern pressed plants as a small part of my PhD research. You can now see the creative project through the link: jessiewhchen.wixsite.com/madebyjessie...

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Lots of new followers today so this is worth reposting! @serenadyer.bsky.social and I have an edited volume forthcoming with amazing chapters from fellow historians and art historians. Please consider asking your libraries to preorder! 📚

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Over the summer, I had the pleasure of consulting a few historical herbaria and botanical books with @flannerm.bsky.social. We walked out of the session with so many new observations and fruitful thoughts for more research!

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Early modern whales are so fun too look at. Image source: a whale from Conrad Gessner's Nomenclator aquatilium animantium (1606).

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This is an interesting call for papers for an upcoming online symposium, organized by the J.Paul Getty Museum and University of Amsterdam: If you are doing or have done research on #earlymodern blue paper, please consider sending an abstract. #PaperHistory for the win. #skystorians

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This small block of a smiley fish was a good one for practicing cutting hatching. Image source: an unknown fish from Conrad Gessner's Nomenclator aquatilium animantium (1606).

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Practicing for upcoming collab w/ bookbinder/toolmaker Brien Beidler on a woodcutting experimentation we've had in mind since few years ago. It'll still take some time, but the wheels are turning! Image is a decoration from the Nederlantze Hesperides (1676) at a reduced size.

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Conference May 3&4 at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute on Craft and Crafting in the Early Modern World. For more info/to register: dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/craft-a...

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Branching into toolmaking! Had the pleasure to follow part of the workshop by the skillful&talented Brien Beidler at the Fopma Wier, Leeuwarden. My first homemade finishing tool for leather stamping/bookbinding features a simple flower. Now I should actually get into bookbinding.

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here's some nice & sparkly PSU Press news from the ICMA #medievalsky www.medievalart.org/icma-news/br...

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Looking forward to 25 January on some flower talk. All welcomed! Register through: www.history.ac.uk/events/carin...

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The NWO Promoties in de geesteswetenschappen project "Everlasting Flowers Between the Pages" concludes tomorrow with the defense of my dissertation! To watch the livestream online, click on the link at the bottom of the announcement page. www.uu.nl/en/events/ph...

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Teamed up with Henrike Scholten from Durare Project to find some handmade papers with different properties. The paper mill De Middelste Molen in Loenen offers factory tours and many paper options. Always a delight to pull a sheet of paper from the vat!

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As I most likely won't have this level of creative freedom for the eventual monograph, I put more thought into designing this version, thanks to the minimum requirement for formatting for Dutch dissertations. Commission possible if this kind of design is appealing! 2/2

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Design idea behind dissertation cover: Pressed, etched, and watercolor-painted aquilegia cultivar that resembles 17th-C. ones in florilegia. They encompass the 3 flower representations I discussed and are made using the applied research methodology of historical remaking. 1/2

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Dissertation copies are printed and ready for the defense on 15 December! More info: www.uu.nl/en/events/ph... Send me a message if you want to join us in person for the ceremony and reception!

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My @ERC_Research Consolidator project PRESERVARE: Large-scale conservation of perishable foodstuffs in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 has been selected for funding! #ERCCoG erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

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Much enjoyed the NWO symposium Towards Impactful Biodiversity Research today. Highly engaging/open-minded, w/ participants truly listened to one another! Added benefit/pleasure of meeting at the Arnhem Royal Burgers' Zoo, w/ some representations of diverse flora & fauna around during conversations.

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