Is there a descent-of-influence map of European philosophers and scientists starting with say Descartes and Galileo as root nodes? A way to compute a sort of Erdos number of historical idea evolution?
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I didn’t know this data existed, but I have no idea how to query this
Can I for instance find a trace between Leibniz and Bergson somehow, via explicit influence path?
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Here’s a “table of philosophic affiliations” from the story of philosophy by Will Durant. Doesn’t have scientists but might be close to what you’re looking for?
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Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by Ada Palmer is a book that does this a bit amazon.com/Reading-Lucret
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