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.本研究数据对应论文：保罗·罗西尼（Paolo Rossini）《笛卡尔哲学与科学的网络起源》，刊载于《HOPOS：国际科学哲学史学会期刊》（HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science）2022年第12卷第1期，第97-120页。元数据包含书信日期以及发件人与收件人的相关信息。若日期无法确定，则以起始日期-终止日期的区间形式标注。请注意：笛卡尔本人的书信未被纳入本数据集。本元数据采集自两个在线知识库：ePistolarium与EMLO。特别感谢马林·梅森书信目录编辑团队同意向我共享其数据。【致谢与来源说明】由《Cultures of Knowledge》与诺埃尔·马尔科姆（Noel Malcolm）编辑的《马林·梅森书信集》，收录于《早期现代书信在线》（Early Modern Letters Online，简称EMLO），本内容基于法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）巴黎分社授权使用的德瓦尔德版本，来源网址：http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=marin-mersenne，访问时间：2020年2月27日。