Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity

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Rana Brentjes is a photo designer with an MA in contemporary Art History; she is currently a doctoral candidate in contemporary German history. She has curated art exhibitions in Berlin and Brandenburg written on Palestinian cinematography and co-edited the Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (2022). She is the digital content curator of the research group 'Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens' in Department III of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Sonja Brentjes is a historian of science with a focus on translations maps institutions travellers the sciences and the arts in Islamicate societies (8th17th centuries) and medieval and early modern Christian Europe. Her recent publications include a volume on astral imagery in Eurasia co-edited with Dagmar Schäfer (NTM 2020). In 2021 she received the Kenneth O. May Prize for the history of mathematics and in 2022 the Annemarie Schimmel Prize for Islamic Studies. Stamatina Mastorakou is a historian of science working on the history of astral knowledge. She completed her PhD onHellenistic astronomy at Imperial College London and has worked and taught in London New York and Zurich. She is currently leading the research group 'Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens' in Department III of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her recent publications include Aratus and the Popularization of Hellenistic Astronomy (Brill 2020). Dagmar Schäfer is a German-based sinologist and director of Department III at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her monograph The Crafting of the 10000 Things (UCP 2011) won the History of Science Society: Pfizer Award in 2012 and the ASAS: Joseph Levenson Prize (Pre-1900) in 2013. In 2020 she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. She is currently researching the historical dynamic of concept formation.