An explicatus is a section (or often, an entire volume) of a written work that explains the methods used to collect and analyze the data or research presented in that work. Most often, an explicatus is rather detailed in terms of methodology and in some cases, also in the applications of data found.
Explicati are somewhat considered as arcane or at least older works and not often seen in current-day literature of the humanities and sciences, although some authors such as the historian Darrett Rutman have produced them (A Place in Time: Explicatus, Darrett & Anita Rutman, 1984).
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