Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17th-century Dutch Republic
Publisher:
Huygens Institute: den Haag
Year:
2013
Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17th-century Dutch Republic
The Circulation of Knowledge Collaboratory on Correspondences (CKCC) corpus consists of various correspondences of scholars who were active in the Netherlands in the 17th-century. It currently consists of approximately 20,000 letters. The table below gives an overview of the correspondences.
ePistolarium - browse and analyze the letters in the CKCC corpus. The ePistolarium:
- allows selection of letters by metadata and persons mentioned in the letter texts
- enables straightforward visualizations of geographical, time-based, social network and co-citation inquiries
- exposes the results of co-citation analysis, keywords analysis and topic modeling
| Scholar | # items |
| Caspar van Baarle (Barlaeus) | 505 |
| Isaac Beeckman | 28 |
| René Descartes | 727 |
| Hugo de Groot (Grotius) | 8034 |
| Christiaan Huygens | 3090 |
| Constantijn Huygens | 7297 |
| Antoni van Leeuwenhoek | 282 |
| Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop | 80 |
| Jan Swammerdam | 172 |
Note: the Leeuwenhoek letters are Dutch-only.
