… this entry ( Daston 368) . 1 . Lorraine Daston, ‘The ideal and reality of the Republic of Letters in the Enlightenment’, Science in context (4:2, 1991), pp.367-86, 370. 2 . Dan Edelstein, Paula Findlen, Giovanna Ceserani, Caroline Winterer, … society’ ( Daston 370) . What’s more, travel and letter writing combined contributed to the construction of a shared conscience and to the circulation of ideas that was essential for intellectual life during the Enlightenment ( 223) . This international network of communication not only fostered scholarly collaboration, for instance in the sciences, but it also contributed to creating the values of universalism (369). 9 . See in particular Roche, 264-275. …