Thomas Harriot studied the motion of falling objects independently of Galileo, discovered Snell’s law of refraction before Snell, pioneered interpolation before Newton, and invented binary before Leibniz. Stefano Farinella studies the notebooks of this remarkable and still remarkably unknown figure.

Much of what we know today about everyday reading practices in Arabic writing cultures comes from so-called audition certificates. The CSMC has made these valuable documents accessible to researchers for the first time on an online platform. A new version now offers open access to over 5,000 sources.

TAMAR, a new web tool providing transcriptions and visualisations of Biblia pauperum manuscripts, enhances access, research, and teaching. The tool can also be used for other research projects.