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Circles of Confidence in Correspondence (2016)

Heuvel, Charles van den (Author)

Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Volume: 31
Issue: 1
Pages: 78-106
Publication date: 2016
Language: English

DOI: 10.1163/18253911-03101002

URI: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/18253911-03101002

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Secrecy Correspondence and corresponding Visualization technology Republic of Letters Communication of scientific ideas Early modern Europe Grotius, Hugo

Science in the early modern world depended on openness in scholarly communication. On the other hand, a web of commercial, political, and religious conflicts required broad measures of secrecy and confidentiality; similar measures were integral to scholarly rivalries and plagiarism. This paper analyzes confidentiality and secrecy in intellectual and technological knowledge exchange via letters and drawings. We argue that existing approaches to understanding knowledge exchange in early modern Europe – which focus on the Republic of Letters as a unified entity of corresponding scholars – can be improved upon by analyzing multilayered networks of communication. We describe a data model to analyze circles of confidence and cultures of secrecy in intellectual and technological knowledge exchanges. Finally, we discuss the outcomes of a first experiment focusing on the question of how personal and professional/official relationships interact with confidentiality and secrecy, based on a case study of the correspondence of Hugo Grotius.

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