Yup, and before DougWhite shoots me, there is the White-McCann article in
Wellman-Berkowitz (no less), _Social Structures_ on the nets of oxgyen
discoverers: Lavosier, and all that.
Barry
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On Thu, 23 May 2002, Wolfe, Alvin wrote:
> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:47:31 -0400
> From: "Wolfe, Alvin" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: historical networks
>
> Randall Collins has done some very interesting work on networks of
> philosophers, et al., going back into antiquity, but I don't remember just
> how far back. --Alvin Wolfe
>
> Collins, Randall. 1992. Caught in the Structural Crunch: The Timing of
> Network Contact and Intellectual Creativity. Paper presented at the
> International Sun Belt Social Network Conference, Tampa, February 1992.
>
> Collins, Randall. 1998. The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of
> Intellectual Change. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University
> Press.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Wellman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: historical networks
>
>
> Was chatting with a friend yesterday, and the Q came up:
> What scholarly research has been done re historical figures.
> He was especially interested in the nets of Marc Antony (_not the fashion
> designer_ but his predecessor).
> Now must of us know thanks to John Padgett and the UCINet demos about the
> Florentine nets of the Medici, et al.
> Are there other such studies?
>
> Barry
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