Mapping the evolution of early modern natural philosophy: corpus collection and authority acknowledgement

Figures & data

Figure 1. Corpus collection workflow.

Table 1. Deviations in the dictionary-based corpus composition after annotation.

Number of titles	NL 1	NL 2	NL 3	FR 1	FR 2	FR 3	UK 1	UK 2	UK 3
Before annotation	47	88	112	74	39	36	66	108	85
After annotation	51	103	92	69	56	24	65	102	88
Deviation	+8%	+11.7%	−17.85%	−6.76%	+43.5%	−33.3%	−1.16%	−5.56%	+3.52%

Table 2. Number of harvested titles per keyword.

Latin keywords	Scraped	French keywords	Scraped	English keywords (cont'd)	Scraped
naturalis (>5,000)	5,000			motion	5,090
philosophia naturalis	561			body (>5,000)
philosophiae naturalis	1,553			body & mind	450
institutions physicae	321			nature (>5,000)
philosophia naturae	127	physique (>5,000)	5,000	history & nature	3,780
philosophia peripatetica	266	morale & physique	946	law & nature	2,950
physica (>5,000)	5,000	nature & physique	767	nature & motion	373
physicanaturalis	493	logique & physique	236	nature & gravity	48
philosophia & physica	627	Descartes	1,196	phenomena & nature	110
physica & rerum	499	Total	8,145	Total	26,353
physica&generalis	336
Aristotelis (>5000)	5,000	English Keywords		German Keywords
physica &Aristotelis	450	mechanical philosophy	415	Naturgeschichte	4,014
physicae	4,991	laws of motion	523	Naturlehre	1,500
mentis	2,271	natural philosophy	2,052	Physik	1,743
logicae	3,724	experimental philosophy	643	Total	11,271
metaphysicae	2,120	experiments	4,930
physicarum	1,459	physics	4,989	TOTAL SCRAPED	86,558
scientiarum	4,990
metaphysicam	1,001
Total	40789

Table 3. Decrease of the corpus following the second automated cleaning stage.

	Latin	English	French	German
Consolidated corpus	41,122	26,353	8,145	11,271
Corpus after the 1st automated cleaning	31,353	16,913	6,108	3,944
Corpus after the 2nd automated cleaning	6,183	8,458	1,529	1,293
Decrease	80.2%	49.9%	74.9%	67.2%

Table 4. Progressive decrease of the corpus during the final manual data cleaning stage.

	Latin	English	French	German	Total
Corpus after the 2nd automated cleaning	6,183	8,458	1,529	1,291	17,461
Corpus after manual annotation	1,067	436	484	212	2,199
Decrease	−82.7%	−94.8%	−68.3%	−83.5%	−83.54%
Corpus after nationality assignment	814	336	288	163	1601
Decrease	−23.71%	−22.9%	−40.4%	−21.1%	−27.19%

Figure 2. Explicit and implicit authority acknowledgement in the Dutch expanded corpus.

Figure 3. Explicit and implicit authority acknowledgement in the British expanded corpus.

Figure 4. Explicit and implicit authority acknowledgement in the French expanded corpus.

Figure 5. Explicit and implicit authority acknowledgement in the German expanded corpus.

Figure 6. Explicit and implicit authority acknowledgment in the harvested Latin corpus (other nationalities).

Figure 7. Explicit and implicit authority acknowledgment across the overall corpus.

Figure 8. Places of publication: complete Dutch, French, English, and German Corpus.

Figure 9. Places of publication: works with authority acknowledgement.