Metadata of 333 letters mentioning René Descartes (1629-1650)

<p>Research data for article: Paolo Rossini, &quot;The Networked Origins of Cartesian Philosophy and Science,&quot; <em>HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science,&nbsp;</em>Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 97-120 (2022).</p> <p>Metadata includes the date of the letters and information about their senders and recipients. If the date is not certain, it is given as an interval (date start-date end).</p> <p>Note Descartes&#39;s correspondence is not included in the data set.&nbsp;</p> <p>The metadata was harvested from two online repositories, <a href="http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/epistolarium/">ePistolarium</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/">EMLO</a>. A special thanks goes to the editors of&nbsp;Marin Mersenne&#39;s correspondence catalogue for agreeing to share their data with me.</p> <p><strong>Credits</strong></p> <p>Cultures of Knowledge and Noel Malcolm, eds, &lsquo;The Correspondence of Marin Mersenne&rsquo;, in Early Modern Letters Online [EMLO] (based on the De Waard edition by kind permission of &Eacute;ditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique [CNRS], Paris), http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=marin-mersenne, accessed 27 February 2020.</p>