Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now Unlocking Digital Texts, but still Napiering. And taking photos. Views my own.
š I canāt quite shake the feeling I had when I was little, that those big shopping centres were special and exciting. The Metro Centre in Gateshead was another.
These things gain in importance when you have Actual Work youāre meant to be getting on with.
I have categorically not just spent five minutes trying to bring out the industrial chic in Sainsburyās car park.
Thank you! š I was, I think itās fair to say, lucky with the weatherā¦
Thank you! Iād got into a bit of a rut with taking pictures. This is enormous fun.
When he doesnāt feel anything much (e.g. ānullus motus sensit deus misereatur servuli indignissimiā) he might use the astrological symbol for the lunar node, the dragonās tail. I have no idea how typical or atypical this is or if itās genuinely related to his astrology. #earlymodern 2/2
Iāve long been curious about Napierās labelling with symbols his experiences in prayer - usually *s (1-12+). Iāve never correlated numbers with the content of notes but often the number of *s varies but the note is simply āoptime affectus deo gratiaeā. Occasionally heās more effusive. 1/2
stripped? Iām starting to think my phone has it in for me this afternoon.
And if anyone is wondering where this is, my phone has boldly stripped in to identify the landmark. Er, thanks Siri.
Currently watching a Bruno Cremer Maigret in which a British colonel in 1950s France drinks Bombay Sapphire.
This is true - and it would be churlish to complain since I live hereā¦
Oo, I think you may be right. Went in to see a small display about it at the museum not too long ago. Itās a shame I only got to see this side of Ely once it was buried under a sea of block paving.
Thank you - a 2007 housing estate off St Johnās Road, Ely (close to our house).
H is for Houses, again. More houses. There are lots of them around here.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekH
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Thank you! I saw the light outside and dashed out in the middle of lunch
Didnāt get a chance to say yesterday, but this all sounded miserable and awful. I hope you have a good weekend away from it.
Itās nice still to be finding new places in your home town twenty years after you moved there, but I have to report that Green Lane in Ely is not the bucolic delight its name promises
I wasnāt there, but she reported being happy with the experience.
Thatās very interesting. Still fairly hot of the press, of course. Thereās no indication of whether Napier knew about it in advance or had requested the book.
I should add that this is February 1620/21, which seems to make it very early for a book whose publication year is given as 1621.
#OTD 1621 gifts arrived for Napier: āMr Barnard of Oxford sent me in kindnes Mr Burtons book of melanch[oly]ā - Robert Burtonās The Anatomy of Melancholy, newly published. At the same time from Mrs Wallys he received ā2 litle buns & a cakeā. #17thc #earlymodern #histmed #bookhistory
Thank you! š Iām looking out of the window and thinking it could be a while before I see the same thing this yearā¦
Thatās not an unfamiliar experience generally, to be honest, but yes - Orford Ness has a weird, eerie beauty that I couldnāt see how to capture. Maybe Iāll go back some time and try again.
This is leaving very M R Jamesian thoughts rattling around in my headā¦
One of the fascinating things about looking at these Orford Ness photographs is that from this distance of time I have no idea what I was taking pictures of, so itās as though Iāve found a stash of someone elseās images.
Thereās one we pass regularly at the foot of a hill by Sebergham up in Cumbria that warns HGVs to āstop and engage crawler gearā. You donāt get that in the fensā¦
Oo look look look! I found my old photos of Orford Ness from a visit in 2006. I took them before I got a digital camera and the prints have aged rather appealingly. (Iām saving one for O in the alphabet challenge.)