Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, a 17th century social network by Nathan Yau.
From the post:
Nathan points us to a project to determine the relationships of Francis Bacon:
Imagine that instead of collecting “door pass” data in the Man Bites Dog story about influence of special interests in the EU Parliment, the study collected financial, social, education, and other relationships with members of the EU Parliament and the favors it bestows.
Same outcome? Or different?