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Russian Historical Science in the First Quarter of the 18th Century: Prince Dimitrie Cantemir

2025· article· W7116725924 on OpenAlex
Mikhail Yu. Shlyakhov, Nina V. Starikova

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Bibliographic record

VenueSibScript · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy, History, and Historiography
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuarter (Canadian coin)AutocracyPower (physics)ChristianityNatural (archaeology)Great powerRussian historyEmperor

Abstract

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Prince Dimitrie Cantemir contributed to the formation of Russian historical science in the first quarter of the 18th century. His works reflected the scientific thought typical of the Early Enlightenment. Prince Cantemir’s philosophical views relied on Orthodox Christianity rather than on the Medieval providentialism and supernaturalism. Providentialism manifested itself in his Theory of Four Monarchies, i.e., global history as a sequence of four superpowers. He believed Russia to be the fourth and last monarchy, the new center of world history. Prince Cantemir explained it with its geographical location, natural resources, socio-economic development, a complex motivation of individual stakeholders, and the divine influence acting through individuals. As a devoted supporter of absolutism, he described the rulers of Moldavia as powerful defenders from the imminent Ottoman threat. The autocratic power of a just monarch was for him the only possible prerequisite for national prosperity. Prince Dimitrie Cantemir’s legacy provides a good example of the early Russian historical science.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.973
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.194 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it