At the #LLM for HPSS workshop, Oliver Eberle showcased a novel #AI approach to analyzing early modern astronomical tables from the Sacrobosco Collection (1472–1650).
Using digit recognition + bag-of-bigrams, they outperformed deep learning baselines (90% cluster purity) despite sparse labels and noisy historical prints.
With explainable AI (BiLRP), they traced how concepts like climate zones and zodiac chronology spread across Europe.