Astra project

International and multidisciplinary project for the study of the history of astrological doctrines and practices from antiquity to the early modern period

[RUTTER ERC Project @ErcRutter]

Is #astrology universal?
Luís Ribeiro explores the relationship between #cosmology and #MaritimeExpansion in the #EarlyModern period in his paper published in The British Journal for the History of Science.
https://t.co/N4cDBj0y5b
#history #histsci #globalization #Ptolemy

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

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: https://t.co/wTuxkLJXAS

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

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: https://t.co/wRfuYQlQKy

[Astra project @astra_project]

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: https://t.co/cD9gsLbKhB

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

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 – https://t.co/sJ76NrXyK6

[CIUHCT @ciuhct]

🚨Attention!
NEW Zoom link HERE: https://t.co/Z56xl6lX0q

#Astrology and the #AstrolabeCom
@StephenHSM
(History of Science Museum, University of Oxford) [Online] Today @ 6pm (GMT+1)

[Astra project @astra_project]

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: https://t.co/VhqFZXqEJO

[Astra project @astra_project]

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: https://t.co/gGZcteeZE9

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

It is with pleasure that post the recording of the workshop “Practices of Judicial Astrology” with Eleonora Andriani @EleonoraAndria3 and myself. It is know available at the @astra_project channel: https://t.co/0QXsbrP8tx

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

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

[Eleonora Andriani @EleonoraAndria3]

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

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

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! https://t.co/Np5AaatLdA

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

Tomorrow I will lecture @cienciasulisboa opening the @ciuhct lectures 2024 with some of my latest research made in the context of the @ErcRutter project.

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

Tomorrow in the Helena Avelar Seminar Marta Passadeiras will discuss “Heavenly Knowledge: Astrology Books in Religious Libraries” @cienciasulisboa C8, room 8.2.17.

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

For those who missed the previous lectures, you can find them online:

- Forecasting the Future in Seventeenth-Century Portugal: https://t.co/V8jSgn7BGJ

- Medieval Arabic translations of Ptolemy's Almagest: https://t.co/9GydsUFroP

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

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.

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

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

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

For those who could not attend the Helena Avelar Seminar, last lecture’s video is now online (English): https://t.co/xOofVrAU2L @ciuhct

[Astra project @astra_project]

The Astra Project team at the 7th National meeting on the history of science and technology (University of Évora). @luisribeiro @emsantos @Carolin37892717

[Luis Ribeiro @luisribeiro]

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): https://t.co/hJ4gvXFjPC @FC_UL @ciuhct

[RUTTER ERC Project @ErcRutter]

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.