Hoping to stop the ratification of a treaty incorporating union with England, late in 1706 parish minister Robert Wylie quoted Declaration Arbroath draft manifesto for an armed uprising. Rather than seeing Wylie’s as part perceived tradition popular sovereignty rooted Arbroath, this paper asks what his quotation reveals about early modern moment. It confirms growing awareness Scottish political...

The paper reports a longitudinal analysis of the topical and methodological development Library Information Science (LIS). Its focus is on effects researchers' disciplines these developments. study extends an earlier cross-sectional (Vakkari et al., Journal Association for Technology, 2022a, 73, 1706–1722) by coordinated dataset representing content articles published in 31 scholarly LIS journa...

The paper studies the historical background for ‘idealist’ reading of Spinoza usually traced back to British and German Idealism. Here, I follow this history further than focus on one earlier idealist reading, indeed perhaps mother them all. It can be found in Elucidarius cabalisticus, sive reconditae Hebraeorum philosophiae brevis et succincta recensio by Johann Georg Wachter, a kabba...