Article ID: CBB406159658

Mapping the evolution of early modern natural philosophy: corpus collection and authority acknowledgement (2022)

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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 resources (the four existing Dictionaries of early modern philosophers and WorldCat) a representative corpus (consisting of 2,535 titles published in Latin, French, English, and German) for mapping the evolution of natural philosophy. In particular, we focus on gathering authors and works that were (directly or indirectly) engaged with the teaching of natural philosophy in the early modern academic milieu. We offer a preliminary assessment of the relevance of our corpus by investigating one aspect of this evolution, namely the trends in the acknowledgments of authorities linked with different and competing approaches to natural philosophy (scholastic, Cartesian, and Newtonian). The results not only corroborate existing knowledge, but they also show distinctive features and differences within these trends that were not observed previously, thus illustrating the heuristic potential of our computational method for corpus collection.

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Authors & Contributors
Vries, Lyke de
Weinacht, Aaron
Lo, Melissa Ming-Hwei
Spelda, Daniel
Prete, Ivano Dal
Navarro, Tayra M. C. Lanuza
Concepts
Controversies and disputes
Natural philosophy
Development of science; change in science
Science and religion
Digital humanities
Historiography
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Early modern
19th century
Modern
Places
Germany
Europe
Utrecht (Netherlands)
Leiden (Netherlands)
Italy
France
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