International and multidisciplinary project for the study of the history of astrological doctrines and practices from antiquity to the early modern periodtheastraproject.org Lisbon, PortugalJoined October 2019
My latest paper “Is astrology universal? Early modern globalization and the disruption of traditional knowledge” was just published on the @BJHSeditor from research made for @ErcRutter It explores the impact of Early Modern globalization on astrology: doi.org/10.1017/S00070…
Recently, I was invited to The ISCSD Book Talk @ISCSDeV to discuss my book, “Jesuit Astrology.” I thank Dr Gang Li and Professor Michael Lackner for the invitation, as well as @JeffreyKotyk and @fmaltaromeiras for their comments: youtu.be/GPB9RcJaEOo
Four years ago, in August 2020, in the midst of lockdowns, we started the Ad Astra Podcast to keep the project active. Recorded a year ago, I’m glad to present the 60th episode with Professor Steven Vanden Broecke: youtu.be/u0w5bx76ukM
The latest Helena Avelar Seminar video is now online. An excellent lecture on the use of the astrolabes in astrological practice by Stephen Johnston @StephenHSM, Senior Research Curator at the History of Science Museum, University of Oxford @HSMOxford – youtu.be/o2EncsC4vY0
After a long pause I am happy to announce a new episode of the Ad Astra podcast. In episode 59 I speak with researcher Sergio Orozco-Echeverri, from the Universidad de Antioquia about Reportorios, an early modern form of almanac in the Iberian world: youtu.be/Ev6PI_vpIV4
Now available at the Astra Project channel, the video of Exploring elections and interrogations through the Liber introductorius of Michael Scot - Seminar: PALÉOGRAPHIE DES MANUSCRITS ASTRONOMIQUES ET ASTROLOGIQUES, org. by @EleonoraAndria3. Link: youtu.be/WC1c8bWqRgY
Now available at the Astra Project channel, the video of Exploring elections and interrogations through the Liber introductorius of Michael Scot - Seminar: PALÉOGRAPHIE DES MANUSCRITS ASTRONOMIQUES ET ASTROLOGIQUES, org. by @EleonoraAndria3. Link: youtu.be/WC1c8bWqRgY
Another great lecture by @fmaltaromeiras at the Helena Avelar Seminar on Inquisition and Astrology. Soon available at the seminar’s YouTube (in Portuguese). @ciuhct@cienciasulisboa
Join us for the third session of the Seminar Series «La pratique des sciences astrales: approches philologiques». Mathieu Ossendrijver will introduce two philological and digital projects which are underway in the ERC project ZODIAC. #HistoryofScience@irht
A new paper by @fmaltaromeiras and me has just been published. It is an account of astrological practices in Early Modern Portugal offering a first view of their clients, education, and books! brill.com/view/journals/…
Tomorrow I will lecture @cienciasulisboa opening the @ciuhct lectures 2024 with some of my latest research made in the context of the @ErcRutter project.
Tomorrow in the Helena Avelar Seminar Marta Passadeiras will discuss “Heavenly Knowledge: Astrology Books in Religious Libraries” @cienciasulisboa C8, room 8.2.17.
For those who missed the previous lectures, you can find them online:
- Forecasting the Future in Seventeenth-Century Portugal: youtu.be/a8rxp_xtxaI
- Medieval Arabic translations of Ptolemy's Almagest: youtu.be/hqJCR5IXipo
Yesterday I had the pleasure of being at the presentation of Charles Burnett’s Festschrift book at the UCL written and organised by his former PhD students. A wonderful tribute to a great man and academic who I had the honour of being one of my supervisors.
By invitation of my colleague Eleonora Andriani @EleonoraAndria3 I will be a lecture in the The workshop 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞́𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬, on 𝐃𝐞𝐜 𝟏𝟑th. @IRHT_CNRS@ciuhct@astra_project
The Astra Project team at the 7th National meeting on the history of science and technology (University of Évora). @luisribeiro@emsantos@Carolin37892717
This thursday we will have the first Helena Avelar Seminar of this academic year. Samuel Gessner talks about eclipses in the Middle Ages (in Portuguese): ciuhct.org/agenda/eclipse…@fc_ul@ciuhct
On 22 September, 2023, the Biblioteca do Palácio da Ajuda hosted the lecture "Cosmologies old and new: early modern transformations in scientific and philosophical thought"with H Darrel Rutkin from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
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