TY - JOUR TI - Circles of Confidence in Correspondence AU - Heuvel, Charles van den AU - Weingart, Scott B. AU - Spelt, Nils AU - Nellen, Henk T2 - Nuncius AB - Science in the early modern world depended on openness in scholarly communication. On the other hand, a web of commercial, political, and religious conflicts required broad measures of secrecy and confidentiality; similar measures were integral to scholarly rivalries and plagiarism. This paper analyzes confidentiality and secrecy in intellectual and technological knowledge exchange via letters and drawings. We argue that existing approaches to understanding knowledge exchange in early modern Europe – which focus on the Republic of Letters as a unified entity of corresponding scholars – can be improved upon by analyzing multilayered networks of communication. We describe a data model to analyze circles of confidence and cultures of secrecy in intellectual and technological knowledge exchanges. Finally, we discuss the outcomes of a first experiment focusing on the question of how personal and professional/official relationships interact with confidentiality and secrecy, based on a case study of the correspondence of Hugo Grotius. DA - 2016/01/01/ PY - 2016 DO - 10.1163/18253911-03101002 DP - booksandjournals.brillonline.com VL - 31 IS - 1 SP - 78 EP - 106 SN - 1825-3911 UR - http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/18253911-03101002 Y2 - 2016/10/10/13:20:25 KW - Republic of Letters KW - circulation and visualization of knowledge KW - network analysis ER -