Tracking 18th-century “social network” through letters

Researchers map thousands of letters exchanged in the 18th century’s “Republic of Letters” and learn at a glance what it once took a lifetime of study to comprehend. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford News: news.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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17 Responses to Tracking 18th-century “social network” through letters

  1. grunder20 says:

    18th century? By that era, they used? old English letters.

  2. potpie921 says:

    excellent!?

  3. thegreeensky says:

    nice video.. very interesting…?

  4. adelle0001 says:

    nice one!?

  5. grunder20 says:

    COOL!?

  6. Funtasmia says:

    Sooo? coool!

  7. thebigfootme says:

    awesome!?

  8. agapitoflores001 says:

    This is just in? time for the current generation. Great!

  9. americanwomanFL says:

    LOVE IT! Letter writing was SOOOOO important and I hate to see it go by the wayside (even though we do it electronically now, it? isn’t the same).

  10. SaviourX says:

    wanna get? that program

  11. magellan500 says:

    Very? cool.

  12. M4rtin26 says:

    looks? kinda like flex to me…

  13. ConstantinopIE says:

    great work !!
    should also be very interesting for Antiquity and Middle-Age (for instance with Averroes)
    go on? :-)

  14. accord3702a says:

    I would love to see? one for Jeremy Bentham

  15. cogiterium says:

    Fascinating. What a? wonderful project!

  16. karanatrv says:

    Not the smartest question…? but wats that UI made in?

  17. jjzamo says:

    interesting! very good idea to? put that together