J.P. Ascher

J. P. Ascher
(not interested in verbal cruelty or mocking living people)

Twitter is dead, long live twitter: write me another way ;- )

[Guy Morrison Sechrist, PhD @GuySechrist]

"Understanding the legal framework of licensing, legislative basis of measurement, and methods of legal dissemination expands our understanding of the legal situation that birthed the Bank of England."

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@GuySechrist I'm thinking about this still @GuySechrist : how do you think they used the forms to calculate things? Do we know where the forms came from? Do you have a picture?

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@GuySechrist We're thinking about the intersection of three or more kinds of commodities: licenses to print, printed books, and shipped tonnage. They intertwine in a really interesting way!

[Guy Morrison Sechrist, PhD @GuySechrist]

@jpsa "This paper examines the impact of law on the calculations performed by customs officers when collecting revenue on commodities to fund the Bank of England beginning in 1694."

[Guy Morrison Sechrist, PhD @GuySechrist]

I am excited to announce that @jpsa and I have submitted an abstract tentatively titled,

Printed Authority & Calculative Methods: Seventeenth-Century Legal Measurement and Computation for the Bank of England!

The proposal has been in the works since November. Fingers crossed

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

This is a great fellowship and they have a really fantastic history of science and technology collection.

[UChicago Special Collections Research Center @UChicagoSCRC]

The University of Chicago Library invites applications for short-term research fellowships for the summer of 2023. The deadline for applications is February 24, 2023. https://t.co/M0g5cgkfmK

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@ceyingst pine scented, how thrilling! Also, what a useful reference resource! ;- )

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@ceyingst Is that an ad for specialized toilet paper on the right: medicated, waxed, anti-rust???

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

I want to write future tests this way: it'll save me time.

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

When you want to ask 198 questions about vegetables, but don't want to write 198 questions:

[The Linda Hall @LindaHall_org]

Linda Hall Library is thrilled to welcome its first Presidential Scholar in Bibliography, J. P. Ascher. @jpsa will utilize the Library's extensive collections to interpret the @royalsociety of London's administrative records for printing. Welcome, J. P.! https://t.co/VdPCnqqVCA

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

Plz retweet: Susan Jones just showed me these wonderful depression-era (1920s) Parisian broadsides and newsletters in the bindings of these theses. Someone NEEDS this evidence! Email her if it's you: https://t.co/ias9Ix1k0F @UNCLibrary

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@metaverity DO IT!!

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@mazarines This is extremely exciting! I don't know anyone else from real life who joined it; heads up, it's extremely weird, but very friendly.

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@Jason_W_Dean Transcription is never a waste of time. Have you ever even really read a title page without a full quasi-facsimile transcription?

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@ceyingst @DerekBokCenter I think the impossibly floating tristram shandy pumpkin is really, really striking. It takes a second to realize that there's another pumpkin on the pumpkin on which it's drawn. I'm so very into these!

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@ceyingst @DerekBokCenter OH WOW, I love this so much... it's like I've never really looked at a pumpkin before

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@ceyingst @DerekBokCenter Another pumpkin! Or even better, one of these images of pumpkins on that pumpkin!!

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@masten_j @ZacharyLesser @meganlcook @eliz_ott @transbookhistry Fredson Bowers is a character in it, right?

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

@aarontpratt Thank you very much for this!

[J.P. Ascher @jpsa]

Is this a burn? Or rust? Or?