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I was pleased to be able to speak at (and help organise) the Connecting with Collections Symposium a few weeks ago.  That event showcased some of the work that was done as part of the AHRC-funded Connecting with Collections internship scheme. The day went pretty well, I think.  For those that weren’t able to make it, I have put a recording of my presentation together with the slides I used, to create a lovely video which summarises the research I did during my internship.  I

This post is cross-posted from the Connecting with Collections blog. At the start of this project I was only hoping to find some documentation linked to the equatorium that Derek Price built – so I was amazed when I found the equatorium itself.  It’s now on display in the Whipple Museum for the History of Science (open Monday-Friday, 12.30-4.30; admission free). But I still haven’t found much of the documentation I was searching for in the first place.  I imagined I’d be ab

Remember when I found King Arthur’s Round Table?  I told the story way back in my second ever blog post.  Go and have a read if you’ve not already – it’s quite the Indiana Jones adventure.  Or just skip to the summary below… SUMMARY: Six-foot model of “my” equatorium built for top historian of science Derek de Solla Price in 1950s.  Long lost.  Found but not identified and renamed “King Arthur’s Table” by witty cataloguer.  Found in the Whipple stores by me, with help from th

I’ve just started a research project focusing on a medieval manuscript, The Equatorie of the Planetis.  This manuscript describes the construction and use of a curious astronomical instrument, and my previous post was about the first stages in my attempt to reconstruct that instrument, in order to better understand the manuscript. I’m still working on that, and will write all about the fun I had trying to divide a three-foot circle into 360 equal degrees very soon.  Before th