3D replica of a 500-year-old iron prosthetic hand reveals the hidden story of a Renaissance amputee.
Historians and engineers have brought a 16th-century mechanical hand back to life using 3D printing—unlocking secrets about technology, disability, and human resilience in the early modern world.
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https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/renaissance-prosthetic-hand-0022230
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I see that there's a call for papers out for the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, February 19-21, 2026: “Premodern Mapping Today”.
Deadline to submit abstracts: July 30, 2025. Details and contact: https://www.rsa.org/forms/FormResponseView.asp?id=9A68C625-38D4-4979-9C72-413F33608254
"We invite abstracts addressing any aspect of mapping in the premodern world (pre-1700), from any mapping tradition. We welcome papers of any kind, from those that address a single map, text, or object to those that address broad questions in the theory or historiography of maps and mapping. We are especially interested in papers that push scholarly conversations about maps and mapping in novel directions, including work that will eventually appear in collections or monographs."
New and Open Access: "Public Health in Milan", by Lavinia Maddulano.
www.taylorfrancis.comPublic Health in Milan – V 1 | Taylor & Francis eBooks, Reference WorkPublic health (salute pubblica) in Renaissance Milan encompassed ideas as well as practices of how to maintain the health of the metaphorical (and physical)
My second detailed look at Paul Strathern’s The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare. I have to ask, how did this book ever get published?
#bookreview #historyofscience #renaissancehistory
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/renaissance-garbage-ii/
Feeling the need to add some hashtags, because I’m interested in a wider array of things than I included in my brief #introduction.
So: #Bicycles #Hiking #Photography #Trees #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #Histodons #MedievalHistory #RenaissanceHistory
#Astronomy
#Climate
#Urbanism #Sourdough #Knitting #YarnDyeing
#Ocean #bioluminescence
#Cetaceans
#CatsOfMastodon