Re: VMs: Quattrocento Minor Characters...

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Nick,

for inspiration, you might want to look at the
well-known catalogue of 1600's scientists
at the Galileo project (which presumably you
have seen):

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/catalog.html

Some of our 'friends' are in it: Dee, Kircher,
Marci and many, many more.

Cheers, Rene

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> On "Project Sourceberg" (part of Wikipedia), I've
> started up a Wikipedia 
> Project for Quattrocento Minor Characters.
> 
>
http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattrocento_Minor_Characters
> 
> The first main idea is to allow everybody to build
> up (over time) pages 
> relating to individual characters, so that all
> information relating to 
> (say) Cicco Simonetta can be put in a single place.
> 
> The second main idea is to promote the page (and the
> general concept) among 
> historians, so that a more inclusive picture of
> history can be built up 
> collaboratively. Also, once information on a
> particular character reaches 
> critical mass, another idea would be to encourage
> new dissertations.
> 
> This is perhaps a new type of collaborative
> historical research, more akin 
> to what we've been doing here on-list: hopefully it
> will grow and take on a 
> life of its own. :-)
> 
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
> 
> 
>
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