Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science

21/06/2024

📢 The second issue of 2024 (39.2) is out!
Have a look at the rich sections of articles and book reviews!
Special Issue (in Open Access): "Touching Visions: Intersensoriality and Gender in the History of Science", edited by Hansun Hsiung, Elena Paulino and Elena Serrano
👉 Browse the table of contents at:
https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/39/2/nun.39.issue-2.xml
📖 You can read the introduction at:
https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/39/2/article-p259_1.xml
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30/05/2024

❗️❗️2024 NUNCIUS PRIZE - EXTENDED DEADLINE❗️❗️

We are happy to inform you that the deadline for submitting an essay proposal for the 2024 Nuncius Prize has been extended to August 31th!

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📢We're excited to announce the launch of the 2nd Essay Award! The 2024 , which is supported by Brill Publishing, will be awarded to the best original paper related to the material and visual history of science, technology and medicine. A great opportunity for graduate students and early career researchers!

📌The winner will receive a cash prize of €500 and the open-access publication in Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science. Three honourable mentions (€100 of Brill book tokens each) will also be provided. All entries will be published as articles in Nuncius pending peer review.

Museo Galileo History - Brill Publishing Elena Canadelli

05/03/2024

📖 Federica Gigante (University of Cambridge) discovered a very rare and ancient Islamic astrolabe with Arabic, Hebrew and Latin inscriptions, preserved in the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo (Verona).

🔍 Dating back to the 11th century, it likely belonged to the collection of Ludovico Moscardo (1611-1681). The instrument was adapted, corrected and translated by Muslims, Jews and Christians in Spain, North Africa and Italy, revealing a fascinating and longstanding history of scientific exchange across cultural, religious and linguistic boundaries.

We are very proud to have published this research in the last issue of Nuncius (39.1): you can read it in Open Access at https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/39/1/article-p163_9.xml

History - Brill Publishing Museo Galileo

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/verona-astrolabe?fbclid=IwAR3RuZMpGQMikLyHJWvKDT868B

The discovery of an extremely rare astrolabe reveals a complex history of Islamic – Jewish scientific exchange

05/03/2024

📢 The first issue of 2024 (39.1) is finally out!
Have a look at the rich sections of articles and book reviews!

Special Issue: "The Amateur Scientist’s Workshop (1800–1950): A History through Objects", edited by Laurence Guignard and Hadrien Viraben

👉 Browse the table of contents at:
https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/39/1/nun.39.issue-1.xml

📖 You can read the introduction in Open Access at:
https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/39/1/article-p1_1.xml
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26/11/2023

✍️The third issue of Nuncius (38.3, 2023) is finally out!

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30/10/2023

Elena Canadelli, "History of Science from a Visual and Material Perspective: Nuncius’s Viewpoint"

Abstract: Nuncius collects the legacy of Annali dell’Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza di Firenze and, since 2011, with the new subtitle, Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science, has decided not to be an all-inclusive journal in the history of science anymore and to open itself to a more international readership. This has been done while maintaining an Italian “heart,” attested to, among other things, by the importance given to the unpublished sources, hosted in the special section Documenta inedita. Nuncius has recently launched the first “Nuncius Essay Award” and plans to improve the web resources of the journal.

👉Physis. International Journal for the History of Science, vol. LVII, n. 1 (2022), pp. 81-88
👉Visit the web site: https://www.olschki.it/riviste/17

26/10/2023

📢We're excited to announce the launch of the 2nd Essay Award! The 2024 , which is supported by Brill Publishing, will be awarded to the best original paper related to the material and visual history of science, technology and medicine. A great opportunity for graduate students and early career researchers!

📌The winner will receive a cash prize of €500 and the open-access publication in Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science. Three honourable mentions (€100 of Brill book tokens each) will also be provided. All entries will be published as articles in Nuncius pending peer review.

👉Find out more:https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/35244_nun_prize_2024.pdf

🏆Take a look at 2022 essays!
https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/38/2/nun.38.issue-2.xml

Museo Galileo Brill Publishing History - Brill Publishing Elena Canadelli

15/06/2023

✍️The second issue of Nuncius (38.2, 2023) is finally out!

👉 Browse the table of contents at:
https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/38/2/nun.38.issue-2.xml

In this issue you can read in Open Access the Winner and the three Honorable Mentions of the 2022 Nuncius Prize, as well as the Editorial by Elena Canadelli, our Editor-in-Chief

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08/05/2023

📣*Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Nuncius Prize!*

📌Nuncius is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the material and visual history of science.

📌Published three times a year by Brill Publishing under the auspices of the Museo Galileo in Florence, Nuncius explores the material sources of scientific activity, such as scientific instruments and collections, and the specific environments of experimental practice. Visual cultures of science and interactions between science and art are also examined.

📌Encouraging, recognising and promoting high quality research among graduate students and early career researchers is the main objective of the .

🔴The first edition (2022), sponsored by Brill, will be awarded to the best original essay on the material and visual history of science, technology and medicine in any period.

🎉We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Essay Prize!

🏆Amandine Victoria Didouan with “To draw a body, human or beast, one must study anatomy”. The Overlooked Influence of a Sixteenth-Century Equine Anatomy Illustration on Early Modern Artists

The three honorable mentions are:

🏅Rahul Bhaumik with Picturing the Snakes: Western Natural History, Visual Culture, and Local Agency in Late-Eighteenth-Century British India
🏅Hannah Kaemmer with Description or Design: Debating Visual Truth at Stonehenge in the Seventeenth Century
🏅Chia-Yun Wu with The Search for the Tang Royal Domain (Wangji 王畿): How Yixing (683–727) Used the Zhou-Era “Nine Domains” (Jiufu 九服) to Map the Tang Dynasty’s New Terrestrial Realm

All essays will be published openly in the next issue of Nuncius: 38.2.

For more information about the Nuncius Prize see:https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/35244_nunprize.pdf

👏Congratulations to our winners!

01/03/2023

✍️The first issue of Nuncius (38.1, 2023) is finally out!

👉 Browse the table of contents at: https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/38/1/nun.38.issue-1.xml

This issue includes three articles!

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18/02/2023

📌Ancora un mese di tempo per presentare la domanda di biennale in ricordo di Paolo Brenni (1954-2021), esperto di rilievo internazionale nel campo della storia degli strumenti tecnico-scientifici nonché collaboratore di inestimabile valore del per lunghi anni.

📚 La borsa di studio è destinata a neo-addottorati in discipline e che abbiano manifestato interesse per lo studio materiale della e della , degli strumenti e del collezionismo scientifico.

Link al bando 👉 https://www.museogalileo.it/.../avviso-borsa-studio-2022...
Scadenza ➡ 14 marzo 2023.
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One month left to submit the two-year fellowship in memory of Paolo Brenni (1954-2021), an internationally renowned expert in the field of the history of scientific and technical instruments as well as invaluable long-time collaborator of Museo Galileo.
The fellowship is intended for postdoctoral candidates in the humanities and sciences, who have already demonstrated profound interest in the material study of the history of science and technology, in scientific instruments and scientific collections.
The application deadline is March 14, 2023.
Link to the announcement: https://www.museogalileo.it/.../avviso-borsa-studio-2022...

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Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Museo Giovanni Poleni - Università di Padova
Musée des Arts et Métiers
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Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

27/12/2022

🔔​ The third issue of Nuncius (37.3, 2022) is finally out!

⏳​ Special Issue: Rethinking Ancient Remains

👉 Browse the table of contents at: https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/37/3/nun.37.issue-3.xml

📃​ The introduction by Fedra Pizzato, guest editor, is : "Objects of Inquiry. Archaeological Remains, Politics and the Public," https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/37/3/article-p513_1.xml

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