Grant: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Individual Fellowship
Project name Cartesian Networks
Researcher: dr. Paolo Rossini
Project timeline: 2019-2022
Taking advantages of recent developments in the field of network science, the project Cartesian Networks employs digital tools and mathematical models to study the formation and evolution of the social and intellectual network(s) that helped Descartes – the father of modern philosophy – develop and disseminate his groundbreaking views in the Dutch Republic. The digitalisation of Descartes’ correspondence within Decoding Descartes provides a dataset to gain insights into the structure of Descartes’ network. This dataset can be further enriched by gathering data from other digital repositories of early modern correspondences.