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Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies
Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
The upshot: this is pretty much exactly what I would provide for a student trying to learn more on this topic, except it adds texts I should know about, but don’t ( The Commerce of Cartography) and others which I hadn’t considered as being relevant to understanding a specific early modern map, but which, on reflection, actually are (the Peter Burke book on the Renaissance sense of the past). The elaborate headings, featuring anthropomorphic suns, serpentine or zoomorphic letters, and the whimsical figure standing beneath the scrollwork, are reminiscent of the flourishing calligraphic tradition in both Spain and the viceroyalties of the Americas during that era. The human figure appears centrally framed by swirling cartouches, suggesting that the artist or scribe wanted to highlight either the author (Don Juan Batista Procopio) or a representative “patient” figure—possibly to symbolize the subject of the medical consultation.
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