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Цифровая оптика: микро и макро в историческом исследовании
The concept of “digital optics” is introduced in relation to historical research. The content of the concept is revealed, its characteristics are given. Digital optics is understood as a combination of approaches, methods, tools based on digital technologies that allow “scaling” of the objects, events and periods under consideration, studying them in different time and spatial intervals, changing these intervals within the same historical research. The article gives a general description of micro and macro histories as methodological approaches and fields of historical research. This is done mainly based on historiographical works. The study draws attention to the merits and limitations of the two approaches. The necessity of combining macro and micro historical approaches, methods and technologies in historical research, as well as the need for holistic knowledge and presentation of history, are substantiated. This combination is considered both from the point of view of the possibility of reaching generalizations through microanalysis, and from the point of view of the possibility of understanding local events and objects through global optics. The foundations of digital optics and its methods are considered, examples of research and projects of different topics are given. The possibilities of digital optics and mathematical tools are revealed in micro and macro historical studies, in overcoming their limitations, ensuring their unity. Digital optics methods are also analyzed from the perspective of the individual and the mass in history, in particular, through the processing of mass historical sources. Special attention in the framework of the topic is given to the concept and methods of analyzing big data in history.