Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Swammerdam: Letter metadata for their second-degree networks combining the CEN and the Epistolarium

This dataset contains the files with the metadata of the letters sent and received by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1673) and Johannes Swammerdam (1637-1680) up to their second-degree networks. It combines data from two sources: the Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum (CEN) and the Epistolarium (ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/epistolarium/). We first captured their first-degree correspondences in both datasets, and then the correspondents of these correspondents.

We ran mappings between the persons in both datasets and combined them. This dataset contains all merged files and, nodes + edges files necessary for network analyzes. It also includes screenshots of the network visualizations created with the program Gephi, used in a presentation by researcher Dirk van Miert on October 2021.