A New Type of Historical Knowledge

When Luciano Floridi (1995) coined the term "ideometry" back in 1995 as a new approach for analysis of text for finding hidden patterns, the vision lacked the appropriate technological means. Later, with further development of the Internet, Massimo Torre (2002) highlighted its enormous potentiality as a tool for ideometry. With the appearance of an online corpora of books, such as Google Books, this vision may have moved closer to reality. In the author's previous article, "Searching for the Great Chain of Being Using Google Print," published in The Information Society ( Ophir 2007 ), he laid the initial design for a potential implementation for the field of the history of ideas. In this short article, the author describes the implementation and initial results for the specific case of German Idealism.