I forgot to post this horrid little cherub when I first took a picture of it, so here he is to darken your feed
August 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Join the International #PuttiOfScience Appreciation Society (IPOSAS) now! Membership applications may be sent to @rhiggitt.bsky.social & me and need to include your favourite #PuttiOfScience image.
Who's in?
August 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Join the International #PuttiOfScience Appreciation Society (IPOSAS) now! Membership applications may be sent to @rhiggitt.bsky.social & me and need to include your favourite #PuttiOfScience image.
However, the world must also be warned of their crimes: beware the murder cherubs of Vesalius
#puttiofscience
#cherubsofscience
#puttiofscience
#cherubsofscience
August 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
However, the world must also be warned of their crimes: beware the murder cherubs of Vesalius
#puttiofscience
#cherubsofscience
#puttiofscience
#cherubsofscience
Can someone please write that #PuttiOfScience book, already? We do need it!
Related: if anyone has knowledge of/literature recommendations on the use of putti (faces) on #EarlyModern scientific instruments (esp. on earliest use), I'd be very grateful for suggestions or getting in touch! (perhaps
@rhiggitt.bsky.social & @dominikhhh.bsky.social?) #HistSTM #ArtHistory 🗃️ 🏛️
@rhiggitt.bsky.social & @dominikhhh.bsky.social?) #HistSTM #ArtHistory 🗃️ 🏛️
April 2, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Can someone please write that #PuttiOfScience book, already? We do need it!
Some #PuttiOfScience (astronomy even!) for @rhiggitt.bsky.social .
Nothing to see here. Except a group of busy baby angels doing #astronomy, and discussing and calculating the solar eclipse of May 1706 as a part of an eighteenth-century impression of our solar and planetary system printed in #Nuremberg, hidden in an atlas about Africa with a very uninviting cover.🗃️
November 6, 2023 at 8:16 PM
Some #PuttiOfScience (astronomy even!) for @rhiggitt.bsky.social .
Splendid #puttiofscience at work
And the great map of the Moon itself, split into two on 335 and 336 digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/42bf...
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Splendid #puttiofscience at work
Not quite one of the #PuttiOfScience but certainly one of the many #PuttiOfLabour
Ping @rhiggitt.bsky.social
Ping @rhiggitt.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Not quite one of the #PuttiOfScience but certainly one of the many #PuttiOfLabour
Ping @rhiggitt.bsky.social
Ping @rhiggitt.bsky.social
Oh how I missed #PuttiOfScience
This is an excellent example indeed.
This is an excellent example indeed.
Some excellent #puttiofscience here, busy as land surveyors with a perambulator (or waywiser, odometer, pedometer, surveyors wheel etc), globe, dividers, paper and pen. From John Cary's Actual Survey of the Great Post Roads (1784), surveyed by Aaron Arrowsmith #18thcentury #histsci 📜🗃️
March 14, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Oh how I missed #PuttiOfScience
This is an excellent example indeed.
This is an excellent example indeed.
Hygge #PuttiOfScience , @rhiggitt.bsky.social ? Frolicking instead of sciencing! Shocking! 😂
Frolicking among the fungi. A glorious scene from the title page of Johan Theodor Holmskjold’s book on Danish fungi (Copenhagen, 1790). The motto nestled among the mushrooms - ‘nec fungi me indigni’ - means ‘fungi do not displease me’. Cambridge UL S370.a.79.2.
May 29, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Hygge #PuttiOfScience , @rhiggitt.bsky.social ? Frolicking instead of sciencing! Shocking! 😂
and here we see how important #puttiofscience were for computational labour before we had lots of graduate students
Nothing to see here. Except a group of busy baby angels doing #astronomy, and discussing and calculating the solar eclipse of May 1706 as a part of an eighteenth-century impression of our solar and planetary system printed in #Nuremberg, hidden in an atlas about Africa with a very uninviting cover.🗃️
August 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
and here we see how important #puttiofscience were for computational labour before we had lots of graduate students
August 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And look! I got some #puttiofscience onto the front cover! Busy surveying the sites and sights of early modern London
September 19, 2024 at 11:20 AM
And look! I got some #puttiofscience onto the front cover! Busy surveying the sites and sights of early modern London
New members of the #PuttiOfScience Appreciation Society may enjoy my 2020 Instagram Advent Calendar. Christmas Day was Newton themed: www.instagram.com/p/CJLOoklpoU... (I think you can scroll back from there to see more)
August 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
New members of the #PuttiOfScience Appreciation Society may enjoy my 2020 Instagram Advent Calendar. Christmas Day was Newton themed: www.instagram.com/p/CJLOoklpoU... (I think you can scroll back from there to see more)
We really need to start the #PuttiOfScience Appreciation Society. 😆
August 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
We really need to start the #PuttiOfScience Appreciation Society. 😆
Did someone say #PuttiOfScience?
lindahall.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/de...
(Title page of André Tacquet's Opera mathematicum, 1669)
#histSTM #sciart #SillyPutti
lindahall.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/de...
(Title page of André Tacquet's Opera mathematicum, 1669)
#histSTM #sciart #SillyPutti
September 20, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Did someone say #PuttiOfScience?
lindahall.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/de...
(Title page of André Tacquet's Opera mathematicum, 1669)
#histSTM #sciart #SillyPutti
lindahall.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/de...
(Title page of André Tacquet's Opera mathematicum, 1669)
#histSTM #sciart #SillyPutti
Some excellent #puttiofscience here, busy as land surveyors with a perambulator (or waywiser, odometer, pedometer, surveyors wheel etc), globe, dividers, paper and pen. From John Cary's Actual Survey of the Great Post Roads (1784), surveyed by Aaron Arrowsmith #18thcentury #histsci 📜🗃️
March 14, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Some excellent #puttiofscience here, busy as land surveyors with a perambulator (or waywiser, odometer, pedometer, surveyors wheel etc), globe, dividers, paper and pen. From John Cary's Actual Survey of the Great Post Roads (1784), surveyed by Aaron Arrowsmith #18thcentury #histsci 📜🗃️
The boys are, of course, #puttiofscience and, gloriously, one of the drawings produced by the drawing putto is another #puttoofscience in a chariot being pulled by a butterfly! (I'm sure you know this @dominikhhh.bsky.social!) #histSTM
September 8, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The boys are, of course, #puttiofscience and, gloriously, one of the drawings produced by the drawing putto is another #puttoofscience in a chariot being pulled by a butterfly! (I'm sure you know this @dominikhhh.bsky.social!) #histSTM
Look, @rhiggitt.bsky.social , what I found: #PuttiOfPorts ! Can't believe they exist and literally round the corner from my apartment. Aren't they just fab! 😍
#PuttiOfScience
#PuttiOfScience
January 31, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Look, @rhiggitt.bsky.social , what I found: #PuttiOfPorts ! Can't believe they exist and literally round the corner from my apartment. Aren't they just fab! 😍
#PuttiOfScience
#PuttiOfScience
So many, many times I have passed the gates of George Heriot's School without stopping to look at it (as opposed to the amazing main building and views of Edinburgh Castle). I only saw today the #puttiofindustry there (variant on #puttiofscience)
January 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
So many, many times I have passed the gates of George Heriot's School without stopping to look at it (as opposed to the amazing main building and views of Edinburgh Castle). I only saw today the #puttiofindustry there (variant on #puttiofscience)
I think I need to start a new thread to collect botanical #puttiofscience. #pottani?
#cherubsofscience
#cherubsofscience
August 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I think I need to start a new thread to collect botanical #puttiofscience. #pottani?
#cherubsofscience
#cherubsofscience
There are always more #PuttiOfScience! I am saving a really excellent couple to cheer us up on some rainy day.
March 14, 2024 at 4:58 PM
There are always more #PuttiOfScience! I am saving a really excellent couple to cheer us up on some rainy day.
this evening's discovery: that #puttiofscience are a thing, e.g. here: wellcomecollection.org/stories/putt...
August 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
this evening's discovery: that #puttiofscience are a thing, e.g. here: wellcomecollection.org/stories/putt...
visited different library, found different cherubs!!
#puttiofscience
#puttiofscience
September 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
visited different library, found different cherubs!!
#puttiofscience
#puttiofscience
Almost #PuttiOfScience but most certainly #PuttiOf(K)Ink 😆
Inky #censorship - or accidental inky drops to cover both the nipples and the pubic region of a #putto?
And was it done by a contemporary owner or reader (in 1740 Germany) - or by some 20th century American librarian at Yale Law Library?
This #earlymodern printer's device has it all. #bookhistory
And was it done by a contemporary owner or reader (in 1740 Germany) - or by some 20th century American librarian at Yale Law Library?
This #earlymodern printer's device has it all. #bookhistory
February 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Almost #PuttiOfScience but most certainly #PuttiOf(K)Ink 😆
Congratulations!
Hurray for the publication & for #PuttiOfScience of course. 👏🏻
Hurray for the publication & for #PuttiOfScience of course. 👏🏻
September 20, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Congratulations!
Hurray for the publication & for #PuttiOfScience of course. 👏🏻
Hurray for the publication & for #PuttiOfScience of course. 👏🏻