Calling all history of astronomy nerds, the latest open-access book from the Alfonsine Tables project is now available, featuring late medieval tables from Central Europe - Jan of Głogów, Albert of Brudzewo, Johannes Schöner, & many more: 🌞🌒🪐 www.brepols.net/products/IS-... #HistSTM @brepols.net
July 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Calling all history of astronomy nerds, the latest open-access book from the Alfonsine Tables project is now available, featuring late medieval tables from Central Europe - Jan of Głogów, Albert of Brudzewo, Johannes Schöner, & many more: 🌞🌒🪐 www.brepols.net/products/IS-... #HistSTM @brepols.net
#noipartigiani
Stefano Pagani
Nato a Alfonsine (RA) 28 Settembre 1922
Nome di battaglia “Steno”
#sempreresistenza
Stefano Pagani
Nato a Alfonsine (RA) 28 Settembre 1922
Nome di battaglia “Steno”
#sempreresistenza
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#noipartigiani
Stefano Pagani
Nato a Alfonsine (RA) 28 Settembre 1922
Nome di battaglia “Steno”
#sempreresistenza
Stefano Pagani
Nato a Alfonsine (RA) 28 Settembre 1922
Nome di battaglia “Steno”
#sempreresistenza
June 5, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Giovani del "Cremona" uccisi dai tedeschi 10 aprile 1945 ad
Alfonsine
alfonsinemonamour.racine.ra.it
April 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The complete set of open-access volumes currently available in this series can be downloaded here:
www.brepols.net/products?q=$...
And additional digital resources from the Alfonsine astronomy research project are here:
alfa.hypotheses.org/ressources/d...
#HistSTM #HistAstro #MedievalSky
www.brepols.net/products?q=$...
And additional digital resources from the Alfonsine astronomy research project are here:
alfa.hypotheses.org/ressources/d...
#HistSTM #HistAstro #MedievalSky
July 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
The complete set of open-access volumes currently available in this series can be downloaded here:
www.brepols.net/products?q=$...
And additional digital resources from the Alfonsine astronomy research project are here:
alfa.hypotheses.org/ressources/d...
#HistSTM #HistAstro #MedievalSky
www.brepols.net/products?q=$...
And additional digital resources from the Alfonsine astronomy research project are here:
alfa.hypotheses.org/ressources/d...
#HistSTM #HistAstro #MedievalSky
A depiction of Alfonso X, King of Castile, Léon and Galicia, disputed King of Germany, and sponsor of the Alfonsine tables of astronomical data, on the astronomical clock of the St. Nikolai church in Stralsund, Germany.
#astrology #history
#astrology #history
December 26, 2024 at 9:49 PM
A depiction of Alfonso X, King of Castile, Léon and Galicia, disputed King of Germany, and sponsor of the Alfonsine tables of astronomical data, on the astronomical clock of the St. Nikolai church in Stralsund, Germany.
#astrology #history
#astrology #history
Today was poster day at #ecss2025! So glad to have seen (in the little time I had, there's so much to see!) so many interesting posters and to have brought our work on the 2023 Alfonsine tornado with @francescodemartin.bsky.social!
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today was poster day at #ecss2025! So glad to have seen (in the little time I had, there's so much to see!) so many interesting posters and to have brought our work on the 2023 Alfonsine tornado with @francescodemartin.bsky.social!
Alfonsine Astronomy, vol. 3: Computational Practices is now out—and fully open access! 🎉
"Unfolding more than two centuries of late mediaeval astronomers’ computational practices, this collective volume explores new venues in the history of astronomy." @brepols.net
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
"Unfolding more than two centuries of late mediaeval astronomers’ computational practices, this collective volume explores new venues in the history of astronomy." @brepols.net
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
July 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Alfonsine Astronomy, vol. 3: Computational Practices is now out—and fully open access! 🎉
"Unfolding more than two centuries of late mediaeval astronomers’ computational practices, this collective volume explores new venues in the history of astronomy." @brepols.net
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
"Unfolding more than two centuries of late mediaeval astronomers’ computational practices, this collective volume explores new venues in the history of astronomy." @brepols.net
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
The bright star is the supergiant Rigel in tbe constellation Orion.
Its etymology is Arabic, “rajul or rijl” for leg (or foot) first appearing as Rigel in 1521 in a note in the Alfonsine Tables, “Nominatur etiam Rigel.”
My 📸 🔭
Its etymology is Arabic, “rajul or rijl” for leg (or foot) first appearing as Rigel in 1521 in a note in the Alfonsine Tables, “Nominatur etiam Rigel.”
My 📸 🔭
January 22, 2026 at 10:28 AM
The bright star is the supergiant Rigel in tbe constellation Orion.
Its etymology is Arabic, “rajul or rijl” for leg (or foot) first appearing as Rigel in 1521 in a note in the Alfonsine Tables, “Nominatur etiam Rigel.”
My 📸 🔭
Its etymology is Arabic, “rajul or rijl” for leg (or foot) first appearing as Rigel in 1521 in a note in the Alfonsine Tables, “Nominatur etiam Rigel.”
My 📸 🔭
Public facing work included both a detailed online exhibition space on Alfonsine astronomy alfa.obspm.fr and an online tool for studying tables both new and old: dishas.obspm.fr #medievalsky #histsci #histastro
Index | Medieval Skies
alfa.obspm.fr
April 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Public facing work included both a detailed online exhibition space on Alfonsine astronomy alfa.obspm.fr and an online tool for studying tables both new and old: dishas.obspm.fr #medievalsky #histsci #histastro
8th March 1945, 8th Army:
"Sgt. M. Dimo of Serowe, Bechuanaland has 3 1/2 years service to date in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia & Italy. He is now manning a 3.7 inch A.A. gun in the Alfonsine sector."
(IWM NA 22934 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
"Sgt. M. Dimo of Serowe, Bechuanaland has 3 1/2 years service to date in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia & Italy. He is now manning a 3.7 inch A.A. gun in the Alfonsine sector."
(IWM NA 22934 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
March 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
8th March 1945, 8th Army:
"Sgt. M. Dimo of Serowe, Bechuanaland has 3 1/2 years service to date in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia & Italy. He is now manning a 3.7 inch A.A. gun in the Alfonsine sector."
(IWM NA 22934 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
"Sgt. M. Dimo of Serowe, Bechuanaland has 3 1/2 years service to date in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia & Italy. He is now manning a 3.7 inch A.A. gun in the Alfonsine sector."
(IWM NA 22934 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
Lo mejor es empezar brindando con La Traviata. Una obra basada en La dama de las camelias de Dumas que se inspiró en Alfonsine Plessis, una mujer con una historia fantástica cuya tumba está en el cementerio de Montmartre de París.
(si veis el video tendréis un mejor día)
(si veis el video tendréis un mejor día)
Flash Mob en TEDxRiodelaPlata 2013 - El Brindis de la Traviata de Verdi
YouTube video by TEDxRiodelaPlata
youtu.be
October 25, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Lo mejor es empezar brindando con La Traviata. Una obra basada en La dama de las camelias de Dumas que se inspiró en Alfonsine Plessis, una mujer con una historia fantástica cuya tumba está en el cementerio de Montmartre de París.
(si veis el video tendréis un mejor día)
(si veis el video tendréis un mejor día)
Seven new seasons of Cosmos
Get physicists, astrophysicists in on all of it. David Attenborough for narrator or something.
Or I'd like a history of astronomy eh... let's say prior to Copernicus. Good medieval Central Asian, Chinese, Alfonsine Tables coverage. Not just Greeks and then Copernicus.
Get physicists, astrophysicists in on all of it. David Attenborough for narrator or something.
Or I'd like a history of astronomy eh... let's say prior to Copernicus. Good medieval Central Asian, Chinese, Alfonsine Tables coverage. Not just Greeks and then Copernicus.
youve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd
Trying to do a daily dumb little prompt to not think about The Horrors
August 15, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Seven new seasons of Cosmos
Get physicists, astrophysicists in on all of it. David Attenborough for narrator or something.
Or I'd like a history of astronomy eh... let's say prior to Copernicus. Good medieval Central Asian, Chinese, Alfonsine Tables coverage. Not just Greeks and then Copernicus.
Get physicists, astrophysicists in on all of it. David Attenborough for narrator or something.
Or I'd like a history of astronomy eh... let's say prior to Copernicus. Good medieval Central Asian, Chinese, Alfonsine Tables coverage. Not just Greeks and then Copernicus.
26th February 1945, 2 Armoured Brigade near Alfonsine:
"Rfn. F. Saunders of Watford watches the barrel which is being filled from the overhead pipeline leading from the pump in the farmyard."
(IWM NA 22615 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
"Rfn. F. Saunders of Watford watches the barrel which is being filled from the overhead pipeline leading from the pump in the farmyard."
(IWM NA 22615 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
February 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
26th February 1945, 2 Armoured Brigade near Alfonsine:
"Rfn. F. Saunders of Watford watches the barrel which is being filled from the overhead pipeline leading from the pump in the farmyard."
(IWM NA 22615 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
"Rfn. F. Saunders of Watford watches the barrel which is being filled from the overhead pipeline leading from the pump in the farmyard."
(IWM NA 22615 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
14th March 1945, Jewish Brigade in the Mezzano-Alfonsine sector:
"B. Wekitien, a signalman with 'B' Coy., 2nd Bn. ready to move up to a forward position."
(IWM NA 23050 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
"B. Wekitien, a signalman with 'B' Coy., 2nd Bn. ready to move up to a forward position."
(IWM NA 23050 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
March 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
14th March 1945, Jewish Brigade in the Mezzano-Alfonsine sector:
"B. Wekitien, a signalman with 'B' Coy., 2nd Bn. ready to move up to a forward position."
(IWM NA 23050 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
"B. Wekitien, a signalman with 'B' Coy., 2nd Bn. ready to move up to a forward position."
(IWM NA 23050 - Sgt. Bowman)
#Italy80
I butchered the colors so badly you're getting the b&w version lol, happy birthday Alfonsine!!! first drawn in march of 2015!
March 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I butchered the colors so badly you're getting the b&w version lol, happy birthday Alfonsine!!! first drawn in march of 2015!
Adesso affitto un salone ad Alfonsine e la organizzo io
February 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Adesso affitto un salone ad Alfonsine e la organizzo io