Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Munich
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Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
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I was looking at an auction catalogue in a library, assumed to be just a copy filled w/ reader annotations...I suspected it to be the notes from the founder of the Deutsches Museum & his colleague...turns out....I was right 😱
Not a Dürer-in-a-Dumpster find, but still pretty awesome! 📜 🗃️ 🏛️ #HistSTM
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One of the things I love most about this is Von Miller's note next to an object he had his eye on: "Schön, wird aber teuer" (Nice, but it [the total amount for all objects] is getting expensive).
The proof is in the pudding, but at least it came out of the oven in one piece.
Who needs tweezers and gloves to pick up and handle an #EarlyModern screw, when you’ve got ferromagnetism! 🔩
I love metal! 🤍 #HistSci #HistTech 🕰️🗃️
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Rechnen und #Rechenmeister in Sachsen: Der lange Weg der Sachsen zur Kunst des Rechnens
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#Rezensionen #Bücher #Landesgeschichte
Spending my day with this beauty ❤️ #HistSci #HistSTM #EarlyModern 🗃️
Since it was my birthday last week, I am making my colleagues at the Deutsches Museum a treat from my region:
"Limburgse Kersenvlaai" 🥧 🍒.
Please pray for me that it works! The last time I've made this was well over ten years ago (though my colleagues at the MPI didn't complain).
By disassembling a 16thc clock (to which this screw belongs), I learned that it originally may have had a pig bristle regulator, like in this 1580 clock: tinyurl.com/4uj54s3e
Real pig bristles were once used as elastic springs to help regulate the movement! I stinking love #EarlyModern craftsmen! ❤️
Natürlich denkt man gleich an Adam Ries, Sachsens berühmtesten Rechenmeister. Und an den landläufigen Spruch: „Nach Adam Riese macht das …“ Aber was Bernd
