Some interesting links from this edition of the Pasts Imperfect newsletter. ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World Pleiades, “a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places” al-Ṯurayyā Project, a “gazetteer … and a geospatial model of the early Islamic world” Recogito, offering “Semantic Annotation without the pointy brackets”
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Burnett, on maps
I’ve been thinking about the correspondence of Thomas Burnett of Kemnay, particularly his correspondence with Leibniz (thus this earlier post and indeed this one).[1] Here I’d like to think a little bit about Burnett’s travels, and the geographical distribution of the correspondence. For now I’d like to focus on correspondence with Leibniz, and on the …
Stewart Duncan 