Chronographics: November 2010

Friday, 19 November 2010

Tracking 18th-century "social network" through letters

Researchers at Stanford have mapped thousands of letters exchanged in the 18th century's "Republic of Letters" and produced a visualisation (partly time-based) of the flow of knowledge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nw0oS-AOIPE

References

Aldridge, Alfred Owen. 1951. Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, a French disciple of Benjamin Franklin. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 95(4). 331-392.
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques. 1753. Carte chronographique. Paper roll in scroll case, 40 cm x 16.5 m. Princeton University Library call number: D11 .B37 1753
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques. 1753. Chronographie, ou description des temps…. Paris. Photocopy in the Rare Books Collection, Princeton University Library, from an original of the explanatory booklet for the chart (q.v.) in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Princeton University Library call number: D11 .B372 1753a.
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques. 1753. Chronography or Depiction of Time. Paris. Explanatory booklet for Chart, trans. Stephen Boyd Davis, October 2009. [PDF file]
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques. 1838. (An anonymous second edition.) Chronographie, ou description des temps, ... Nouvelle édition, contenant des additions importantes, etc. British Library shelfmark: 798.l.19.
Blair, John. 1779. The chronology and history of the world, from the creation to the year of Christ, 1779. London.
Diderot, Denis. Chronological (machine). The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Stephen Boyd Davis. Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library, 2009. Web. Accessed 19 September 2009. [link] Trans. of "Chronologique (machine.)," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 3. Paris, 1753.
Ferguson, Stephen. 1991. The 1753 Carte chronographique of Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg. Princeton University Library Chronicle. (Winter 1991).
Priestley, Joseph. 1765. A Chart of Biography. J. Johnson: Saint Paul’s Church Yard, London. British Library shelfmark: 611.l.19.
Priestley, Joseph. 1769. A New Chart of History. J. Johnson, Paternoster Row, London. British Library Shelfmark: Maps 999.(137.)
Priestley, Joseph. 1778. Description of a Chart of Biography. 7th edn. J. Johnson. London. [PDF file]
Rosenberg, Daniel and Grafton, Anthony. 2010. Cartographies of Time. Princeton Architectural Press, New York. ISBN 9781568987637.

Chronographics

Friday, 19 November 2010

Tracking 18th-century "social network" through letters

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