Normalisation of Early Modern Science: Digitized Corpus of 17th- and 18th-Century Sources

<p>This dataset contains a digitized corpus of early modern natural philosophy works that underlie the European Research Commission-funded Starting Grant &ldquo;The Normalisation of Natural Philosophy: How Teaching Practices Shaped the Evolution of Early Modern Science,&rdquo; (grant agreement No.&nbsp;801653 NaturalPhilosophy), led by Dr. Andrea Sangiacomo at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen.</p> <p>The methodology we used for the digitization of the present dataset is described in the paper:</p> <ul> <li>A. Sangiacomo, H. Hogenbirk, R. Tanasescu, A. Karaisl, N White. 2022. &ldquo;Reading in the Mist: High-Quality Optical Character Recognition Based on Early Modern Digitized Books.&rdquo; <em>Digital Scholarship in the Humanities</em>. https://bit.ly/3vwvwKI</li> </ul> <p>The inventory of the present dataset is available at <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5566681">DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5566681</a></p> <p>The methodology behind the retrieval, cleaning, and annotation of the above inventory is described in the paper:</p> <ul> <li>Sangiacomo, Andrea; Tanasescu, Raluca; Donker, Silvia; Hogenbirk, Hugo. 2021. &ldquo;Mapping the Evolution of Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Corpus Collection and Authority Acknowledgement,&rdquo; published in the <em>Annals of Science</em> (DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2021.1992502; permanent link: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2021.1992502">https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2021.1992502</a></li> </ul> <p>The dictionaries from which we selected the data in worksheets 2-5 in the inventory are the following:</p> <ul> <li>Wiep van Bunge, Henri Krop, Bart Leeuwenburgh, Paul Schuurman, Han van Ruler and Michiel Wielema, <em>Dictionary of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers</em> (London: Bloomsbury, 2003);</li> <li>John Yolton, Valdimir Price and John Stephens. <em>Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers</em> (London: Bloomsbury, 1999);</li> <li>Andrew Pyle. <em>Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers</em> (London: Bloomsbury, 2000);</li> <li>Luc Foisneau. <em>Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers</em> (London: Bloomsbury, 2008);</li> <li>Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn. <em>Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century Philosophers</em> (London: Bloomsbury, 2011).</li> </ul> <p>University of Groningen Team:</p> <ul> <li>Andrea Sangiacomo (principal investigator)</li> <li>Raluca Tanasescu (postdoctoral researcher)</li> <li>Silvia Donker and Hugo Hogenbirk (PhD students)</li> <li>Cristian A. Marocico (scientific programmer, Center for Information Technology)</li> <li>Wim Breakman (bibliographer, University of Groningen Library)</li> </ul>