Digital Methods are an important help for research on early modern scholarship, especially for investigations on vast supranational correspondence networks. At the same time, scholarly ...
During the late Renaissance, around 1570, humanists developed a new “shorthand” way for representing the world at a single glance: personifications of the four continents (Europe, Asia, ...
The digitization and digital processing of historical newspapers promises new research perspectives and possibilities of analysis for scholars and researchers from various disciplines ...
Numerous astronomical observatories were established across Europe over the course of the eighteenth century, rendering astronomy a distinct sub-branch of the Republic of Letters. ...
The American revolutionary and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin had significant ties to the Habsburg Monarchy. Between 1776 and 1789, Franklin received 253 letters from 93 individuals ...