Mapping the evolution of early modern natural philosophy: corpus collection and authority acknowledgement.
Although natural philosophy underwent dramatic transformations during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, studying its evolution as a whole remains problematic. In this paper, we present a method that integrates traditional reading and computational tools in order to distil from different reso...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 1 - 40 |
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