Mikko Tolonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4798333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikko Tolonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikko |
| FAMILY NAME | Tolonen |
| SIGNATURE | TOLONEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2892-8911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Translation mining
This paper introduces the concept of “translation mining”, a cross-lingual embedding approach that bridges close reading and large-scale quantitative analysis of historical translations. Focusing on eighteenth-century British (ECCO) and French (Gallica) corpora, we systematically identify semantically aligned passages across hundreds of thousands of documents. The approach provides a comprehensive AI-driven methodology for locating translations o…
Image Reuse in Eighteenth-Century Book History
This study uses large-scale computational analysis to trace the reuse of decorative headpieces in eighteenth-century books. The results highlight how image variants reveal complex networks of printers and publishers beyond simple one-to-one ownership
Saturated by Commerce
John Pocock, Istvan Hont, and scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment have profoundly shaped how historians understand eighteenth-century debates about commerce and ‘commercial society’. Their influential interpretations – ranging from republican anxieties about corruption to the political-economic dynamics of trade and state power – continue to frame the field. This paper takes these positions as analytical starting points and examines them compu…
Quantifying the Presence of Ancient Greek and Latin Classics in Early Modern Britain
This paper explores the reception of classical works in Early Modern Britain during the hand press era, between the 1470s and 1790s. It investigates canon formation, knowledge transmission, and the integration of digital archives in quantitative book history. The study quantitatively maps changing perceptions of the classical canon across time, offering a panoramic view of 'shifting canons'. The analysis is based on three data archives: the Engli…
Print culture and economic constraints
Who could afford books in the late early-modern period? We explore how prices related to the demand for books in eighteenth-century Britain by analysing extensive bibliographic and socio-economic data based on Bayesian statistics and machine learning. Our results quantify in financial terms the difficulty of buying print products faced by most British households in the eighteenth century, and how this related to the varying levels of supply acros…
The Evolution of Scottish Enlightenment Publishing
This article uses large-scale bibliographic data to extract and analyse the works, authors, and publishers of the Scottish Enlightenment. By doing so, we aim to encompass a wider scope and definition of Scottish Enlightenment publishing, contextualizing both the major and the lesser-known publishers. We reveal two competing models for key Scottish publishers: those working in Scotland, publishing works that were printed later in London; and those…
Dimensions of Incoming Economic Vocabulary in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The eighteenth century is often connected with economic improvement. Considering the significant functional expansion of the English language during this period, driven by various socio-cultural changes, and the contemporary interest in the economy, we hypothesize that this linguistic expansion facilitated the spread of economic vocabulary to new contexts. Combining linguistic and historical expertise, we study vocabulary drawn from the ‘trade an…
Arvutiteaduse kaasamine humanitaarharidusse / Integrating Computation into Humanities Education
Digihumanitaaria-alane haridus peaks keskenduma selgelt määratletud allvaldkondadele, mis on mõttekad kohalikus kontekstis. Otsustasime Helsinki ülikoolis pöörata peatähelepanu interdistsiplinaarse digihumanitaaria valdkonnale. Käesolevas artiklis näitame, et digihumanitaaria-alaste uuringute edukaks läbiviimiseks on oluline interdistsiplinaarsus, ning väidame, et seda on digihumanitaarharidusse kõige parem liita humanitaarteaduslikel ühisuuringu…
Bibliographic Data Science and the History of the Book (c. 1500–1800)
National bibliographies have been identified as a crucial resource for historical research on the publishing landscape, but using them requires addressing challenges of data quality, completeness, and interpretation. We call this approach bibliographic data science. In this article, we briefly assess the development of book formats and the vernacularization process in early modern Europe. The work undertaken paves the way for more extensive integ…
A Quantitative Approach to Book-Printing in Sweden and Finland, 1640–1828
Several cities in Sweden have been providing book-printing facilities since the 1640s. In our quantitative and explorative analysis of library catalogs from the National Library of Sweden and the National Library of Finland we identify the general trends in publishing, how book-printing has been affected by political events, and how printing developed at different paces in different parts of the realm. We have developed a new method for analyzing…
The idea of commercial society in the Scottish Enlightenment
Book review. Reviewed work: The idea of commercial society in the Scottish Enlightenment / by Christopher J. Berry. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013, 256 pp., ISBN 978-0748645329
The Gothic Origin of Modern Civility
This paper seeks to establish that Bernard Mandeville's ideas on courage and honour shaped the Scottish debate about ancients and moderns by formulating a perspective how eighteenth-century civil societies grew large, luxurious and feminine without losing their ability to wage war. My focus is on Mandeville's positive influence on David Hume, whose writings were a springboard for many Mandevillean ideas in Scotland. In contrast to a recent claim …
The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes
This article presents the full text of a hitherto unpublished letter to Hobbes, and provides details of three other items from his correspondence which have not survived. The unpublished letter is from the Oxford academic Thomas Barlow, thanking Hobbes for a copy of Hobbes's De homine ; that copy also survives, and details are given of Barlow's critical annotations on it. Where the three non-extant letters are concerned, some information about th…
The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes
This article presents the full text of a hitherto unpublished letter to Hobbes, and provides details of three other items from his correspondence which have not survived. The unpublished letter is from the Oxford academic Thomas Barlow, thanking Hobbes for a copy of Hobbes's De homine ; that copy also survives, and details are given of Barlow's critical annotations on it. Where the three non-extant letters are concerned, some information about th…
Print culture and economic constraints
Who could afford books in the late early-modern period? We explore how prices related to the demand for books in eighteenth-century Britain by analysing extensive bibliographic and socio-economic data based on Bayesian statistics and machine learning. Our results quantify in financial terms the difficulty of buying print products faced by most British households in the eighteenth century, and how this related to the varying levels of supply acros…
The Evolution of Scottish Enlightenment Publishing
This article uses large-scale bibliographic data to extract and analyse the works, authors, and publishers of the Scottish Enlightenment. By doing so, we aim to encompass a wider scope and definition of Scottish Enlightenment publishing, contextualizing both the major and the lesser-known publishers. We reveal two competing models for key Scottish publishers: those working in Scotland, publishing works that were printed later in London; and those…
The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes
This article presents the full text of a hitherto unpublished letter to Hobbes, and provides details of three other items from his correspondence which have not survived. The unpublished letter is from the Oxford academic Thomas Barlow, thanking Hobbes for a copy of Hobbes's De homine ; that copy also survives, and details are given of Barlow's critical annotations on it. Where the three non-extant letters are concerned, some information about th…
The idea of commercial society in the Scottish Enlightenment
Book review. Reviewed work: The idea of commercial society in the Scottish Enlightenment / by Christopher J. Berry. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013, 256 pp., ISBN 978-0748645329
The Gothic Origin of Modern Civility
This paper seeks to establish that Bernard Mandeville's ideas on courage and honour shaped the Scottish debate about ancients and moderns by formulating a perspective how eighteenth-century civil societies grew large, luxurious and feminine without losing their ability to wage war. My focus is on Mandeville's positive influence on David Hume, whose writings were a springboard for many Mandevillean ideas in Scotland. In contrast to a recent claim …
Bibliographic Data Science and the History of the Book (c. 1500–1800)
National bibliographies have been identified as a crucial resource for historical research on the publishing landscape, but using them requires addressing challenges of data quality, completeness, and interpretation. We call this approach bibliographic data science. In this article, we briefly assess the development of book formats and the vernacularization process in early modern Europe. The work undertaken paves the way for more extensive integ…
A Quantitative Approach to Book-Printing in Sweden and Finland, 1640–1828
Several cities in Sweden have been providing book-printing facilities since the 1640s. In our quantitative and explorative analysis of library catalogs from the National Library of Sweden and the National Library of Finland we identify the general trends in publishing, how book-printing has been affected by political events, and how printing developed at different paces in different parts of the realm. We have developed a new method for analyzing…
Arvutiteaduse kaasamine humanitaarharidusse / Integrating Computation into Humanities Education
Digihumanitaaria-alane haridus peaks keskenduma selgelt määratletud allvaldkondadele, mis on mõttekad kohalikus kontekstis. Otsustasime Helsinki ülikoolis pöörata peatähelepanu interdistsiplinaarse digihumanitaaria valdkonnale. Käesolevas artiklis näitame, et digihumanitaaria-alaste uuringute edukaks läbiviimiseks on oluline interdistsiplinaarsus, ning väidame, et seda on digihumanitaarharidusse kõige parem liita humanitaarteaduslikel ühisuuringu…
Dimensions of Incoming Economic Vocabulary in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The eighteenth century is often connected with economic improvement. Considering the significant functional expansion of the English language during this period, driven by various socio-cultural changes, and the contemporary interest in the economy, we hypothesize that this linguistic expansion facilitated the spread of economic vocabulary to new contexts. Combining linguistic and historical expertise, we study vocabulary drawn from the ‘trade an…
Print culture and economic constraints
Who could afford books in the late early-modern period? We explore how prices related to the demand for books in eighteenth-century Britain by analysing extensive bibliographic and socio-economic data based on Bayesian statistics and machine learning. Our results quantify in financial terms the difficulty of buying print products faced by most British households in the eighteenth century, and how this related to the varying levels of supply acros…
The Evolution of Scottish Enlightenment Publishing
This article uses large-scale bibliographic data to extract and analyse the works, authors, and publishers of the Scottish Enlightenment. By doing so, we aim to encompass a wider scope and definition of Scottish Enlightenment publishing, contextualizing both the major and the lesser-known publishers. We reveal two competing models for key Scottish publishers: those working in Scotland, publishing works that were printed later in London; and those…
Quantifying the Presence of Ancient Greek and Latin Classics in Early Modern Britain
This paper explores the reception of classical works in Early Modern Britain during the hand press era, between the 1470s and 1790s. It investigates canon formation, knowledge transmission, and the integration of digital archives in quantitative book history. The study quantitatively maps changing perceptions of the classical canon across time, offering a panoramic view of 'shifting canons'. The analysis is based on three data archives: the Engli…
Translation mining
This paper introduces the concept of “translation mining”, a cross-lingual embedding approach that bridges close reading and large-scale quantitative analysis of historical translations. Focusing on eighteenth-century British (ECCO) and French (Gallica) corpora, we systematically identify semantically aligned passages across hundreds of thousands of documents. The approach provides a comprehensive AI-driven methodology for locating translations o…
Image Reuse in Eighteenth-Century Book History
This study uses large-scale computational analysis to trace the reuse of decorative headpieces in eighteenth-century books. The results highlight how image variants reveal complex networks of printers and publishers beyond simple one-to-one ownership
Saturated by Commerce
John Pocock, Istvan Hont, and scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment have profoundly shaped how historians understand eighteenth-century debates about commerce and ‘commercial society’. Their influential interpretations – ranging from republican anxieties about corruption to the political-economic dynamics of trade and state power – continue to frame the field. This paper takes these positions as analytical starting points and examines them compu…
History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Classics (3 works)