EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS’ NIGHT – PALLOGRAPHY: RESEARCHERS “WITH A PEN and a magnifying glass”

Paleography is a fascinating science created by the French Benedictine Jean Mabillon in 1681. Reading, transcribing and studying how writing has been done over the centuries are part of the private field of action of paleographers. This is how we learn about men and societies. The quill and the magnifying glass, symbolically referred to here, set the tone for NEI’s activity. The public will be invited to see and read documents written with quills (bird, metal, glass), to use magnifying glasses to enlarge letters, and to see materials and instruments used in past centuries (parchment, waxed tablets, quills, styluses…) Bring a magnifying glass!!!

Date: September 30, 2016

Venue: Science Museum of the University of Coimbra