If you are a fan of citrus fruits, take some time and enjoy these glorious, colored images of a book about the famous #earlymodern Nuremberg-based citrus fruit cultications:
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If you are a fan of citrus fruits, take some time and enjoy these glorious, colored images of a book about the famous #earlymodern Nuremberg-based citrus fruit cultications:
What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
I blame VD18 #Long18thCentury #GettingLonger.
February 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I blame VD18 #Long18thCentury #GettingLonger.
Most citrus fruits are situated as flying objects in the orbit around a human-made landscape ...
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Most citrus fruits are situated as flying objects in the orbit around a human-made landscape ...
June 14, 2026 at 7:31 AM
They said, why not start the new book with a spectacular detail like a screaming skull or something, then enter a placeholder text, and wait for the inspiration to finally kick in...
February 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
They said, why not start the new book with a spectacular detail like a screaming skull or something, then enter a placeholder text, and wait for the inspiration to finally kick in...
And here is the backside with the printed whale in full glory.
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August 8, 2024 at 11:50 AM
And here is the backside with the printed whale in full glory.
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"Who ya gonna call?" - "Ghostbusters!"
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"Who ya gonna call?" - "Ghostbusters!"
It was about time they published a book about being with X-ray eyes in a zoo. #skystorians
July 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It was about time they published a book about being with X-ray eyes in a zoo. #skystorians
Important Announcement: The Queen Bee is save. I repeat: The Queen Bee is save.
August 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Important Announcement: The Queen Bee is save. I repeat: The Queen Bee is save.
Here is the detail of the image in context: it is a New Years' welcoming print.
May 13, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Here is the detail of the image in context: it is a New Years' welcoming print.
This is, of course, another entry of the #LibraryStampMadness series.
August 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM
This is, of course, another entry of the #LibraryStampMadness series.
This is highly useful if you work with #earlymodern books of all kinds: a compiled and explained set of contemporary abbreviations. From apothecaries' weights to signs for half moon moments in almanacs. Boost, #bookhistory and #skystorians looking for abbreviations of the past. 🗃️
January 18, 2024 at 7:57 AM
This is highly useful if you work with #earlymodern books of all kinds: a compiled and explained set of contemporary abbreviations. From apothecaries' weights to signs for half moon moments in almanacs. Boost, #bookhistory and #skystorians looking for abbreviations of the past. 🗃️
This horse seems not too happy being positioned in an #earlymodern #infographic.
January 13, 2026 at 9:57 AM
This horse seems not too happy being positioned in an #earlymodern #infographic.
"Ordinary mortals, listen up, say cheese", #SelfieDeath.
May 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"Ordinary mortals, listen up, say cheese", #SelfieDeath.
That's a page turner! Imagine a book about a whale, and you see on the title page the gleamed through backside of the very whale swimming. #bookhistory #earlymodern
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August 8, 2024 at 11:49 AM
That's a page turner! Imagine a book about a whale, and you see on the title page the gleamed through backside of the very whale swimming. #bookhistory #earlymodern
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Universities, what is preventing you from awarding (again) the academic degree "Magister der Weltweißheit" - Master of Worldly Wisdom? #AcademicChatter
November 10, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Universities, what is preventing you from awarding (again) the academic degree "Magister der Weltweißheit" - Master of Worldly Wisdom? #AcademicChatter
Die Kunst bestand darin, mit unterschiedlich dunklen Kreisen eine Sonnenfinsternis bildlich umzusetzen, auf dass sie verständlich wurde. "Nach dem augen maaß" erklärte dieser Sonderdruck die vielen kleinen Kreise, die die Bewegungen der "Grose Sonnen Finsterniß vom Jahr 1715" andeuteten.
August 12, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Die Kunst bestand darin, mit unterschiedlich dunklen Kreisen eine Sonnenfinsternis bildlich umzusetzen, auf dass sie verständlich wurde. "Nach dem augen maaß" erklärte dieser Sonderdruck die vielen kleinen Kreise, die die Bewegungen der "Grose Sonnen Finsterniß vom Jahr 1715" andeuteten.
That's what I call a proper initial: "E"
#bookhistory experts know: an initial is the letter at the beginning of the text that is larger than the rest. And this initial is something and a half. "Es sind in diesem ..." #skystorians #earlymodern
#bookhistory experts know: an initial is the letter at the beginning of the text that is larger than the rest. And this initial is something and a half. "Es sind in diesem ..." #skystorians #earlymodern
September 11, 2024 at 7:22 AM
That's what I call a proper initial: "E"
#bookhistory experts know: an initial is the letter at the beginning of the text that is larger than the rest. And this initial is something and a half. "Es sind in diesem ..." #skystorians #earlymodern
#bookhistory experts know: an initial is the letter at the beginning of the text that is larger than the rest. And this initial is something and a half. "Es sind in diesem ..." #skystorians #earlymodern
Workweek, your time is almost up. The weekend is coming! The WEEKEND. IS. COMING. #weekendsky
May 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Workweek, your time is almost up. The weekend is coming! The WEEKEND. IS. COMING. #weekendsky
"Besondere Streitigkeiten", hier aus dem Jahr 1763, sind es immer dann, wenn Schriftsteller sich mit Schriftstellern streiten. Die Lust zur publizistischen Randale ist ein überzeitliches Thema.
July 22, 2026 at 6:52 AM
"Besondere Streitigkeiten", hier aus dem Jahr 1763, sind es immer dann, wenn Schriftsteller sich mit Schriftstellern streiten. Die Lust zur publizistischen Randale ist ein überzeitliches Thema.