Mapping the Republic of Letters. About the Project Before email, faculty meetings, international colloquia, and professional associations, the world of scholarship relied on its own networks: networks of correspondence that stretched across countries and continents; the social networks created by scientific academies; and the physical networks brought about by travel.
These networks were the lifelines of learning, from the age of Erasmus to the age of Franklin. SGA - Mémoire des hommes - Compagnie des Indes.