mabillon

6 notes carry this tag — 2 claims, 2 observations, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Capture: Does a genuine mechanism connect the DOCSUB-postdates-RHW-1986 claim and the McPeters 1990 letter's July-1984 date, or is the cosine-0.84 pairing a false friend?

capture promoted 2026-09-22 · bridge-investigation, cosine-similarity, diplomatics, documentary-source-criticism, werbos
Werbos's DOCSUB chronology claim and McPeters's 1990-letter dating claim are both unflagged members of the vault's diplomatics cluster — dated-primary-source comparison overruling a received attribution

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-22 · diplomatics, documentary-source-criticism, bridge-investigation, cosine-similarity, werbos
Gates's 2025 Altair BASIC authentication reasoning is the same evidentiary move Mabillon founded — a genuine, previously unlinked member of the vault's diplomatics cluster

observation seedling Tier 3 2026-08-14 · diplomatics, forgery-detection, documentary-source-criticism, history-of-computing, gates
Is there a documentable descent from Mabillon's diplomatics through general historical method (Quellenkritik / Ranke) to modern scientific-priority adjudication — or only a methodological analogy?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · diplomatics, mabillon, historiography, quellenkritik, ranke
Diplomatics joined the 19th-century Rankean historian's toolkit as an auxiliary science — institutional convergence, not proof Ranke's method derived from Mabillon

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-31 · diplomatics, mabillon, historiography, ranke, quellenkritik
John Wallis's 1685 history of algebra used Mabillon-style documentary evidence to rule for Harriot over Descartes in a priority dispute

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · diplomatics, mabillon, historiography, history-of-mathematics, priority-dispute