Metadata of 333 letters mentioning René Descartes (1629-1650)

Research data for article: Paolo Rossini, "The Networked Origins of Cartesian Philosophy and Science," <em>HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, </em>Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 97-120 (2022). Metadata includes the date of the letters and information about their senders and recipients. If the date is not certain, it is given as an interval (date start-date end). Note Descartes's correspondence is not included in the data set. The metadata was harvested from two online repositories, ePistolarium and EMLO. A special thanks goes to the editors of Marin Mersenne's correspondence catalogue for agreeing to share their data with me. <strong>Credits</strong> Cultures of Knowledge and Noel Malcolm, eds, ‘The Correspondence of Marin Mersenne’, in Early Modern Letters Online [EMLO] (based on the De Waard edition by kind permission of Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique [CNRS], Paris), http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=marin-mersenne, accessed 27 February 2020.