Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  Scholars have published the lost journals of the famous British abolitionist and explorer of Africa, David Livingstone in their David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project. The Project uses the method of transcribing to learn about Livingstone’s travels, which includes information about his five-month stay in the Congo and also first-hand account of a massacre that…

Sample DH 1 — Section C6 of Early Modern London Based on a visualization concept, the map of early modern London shows the physical area of Shakespeare’s London before the Great Fire. The mapping of all the prominent landmarks and features of the city are clearly shown to help the viewer understand more about the…

The Digital Humanities project of Mapping the Republic of Letters employs several approaches such as visualization, text description and mapping to help people understand the social, physical and academic networks of certain famous scholars living before the industrial revolution. In this post, I will examine the case of Galileo Galilei. The primary DH approach in…

In this post I will examine how the Map of Early Modern London project demonstrates how digital humanities research and publication can help to make sense of a historical place and period that we think we understand (if we know English history, or Shakespeare, or London) but that can offer us new ways to think…

The purpose of “Virtual Paul’s Cross Project” is to visualize a quite important historical event, namely, John Donne’s sermon for Gunpowder Day, November 5, 1622. From 16th century, the Church of England, with the English Royalty at its head, had kept trying to achieve  full power (political and religious authority) on controlling the country. John Donne’s sermon for…