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Author photo. Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Anthony Grafton

Author of The Footnote: A Curious History

Includes the names: AT Grafton, nthony Grafton, Anthony Grafton, Anthony Grafton, Anthony ed Grafton, Prof. Anthony Grafton, editor Anthony Grafton

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Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University.
— biography from Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)
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Works by Anthony Grafton
The Footnote: A Curious History 470 copies, 5 reviews
Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline 417 copies, 3 reviews
The Classical Tradition (Editor) 318 copies, 1 review
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of… 138 copies, 1 review
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the… 136 copies
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance 135 copies
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West 121 copies
What was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe 102 copies, 1 review
Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Author) 97 copies, 2 reviews
Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science,… 92 copies
Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship 81 copies
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture 76 copies
Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe 66 copies
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation 56 copies
"I have always loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a… 42 copies, 1 review
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Thomas… 38 copies
Codex in Crisis 30 copies, 1 review
The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (Editor) 27 copies
From Humanism to the Humanities 24 copies
The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe 19 copies
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume… 17 copies, 1 review
Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe… 17 copies
How to Build a Life in the Humanities: Meditations on the Academic… 12 copies, 1 review
Magic and Technology in Early Modern Europe- Dibner Library Lecture 15… 12 copies
La page de l'antiquité à l'ère du… 11 copies
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume… 10 copies
Los orígenes trágicos de la erudición (Spanish Edition) 6 copies
Canonical texts and scholarly practices : a global comparative approach 3 copies
The Uses of Greek and Latin: Historical Essays (Warburg Institute surveys… (Editor) 2 copies
Der Magus. 2 copies
The Thirty Years War 1 copy
Kalpazanlar ve eleÅŸtirmenler: Batı tarihçiliÄŸinde yaratıcılık ve… 1 copy
The Penguin History of Europe Volume 4: Renaissance Europe (Allen Lane… 1 copy
Dipnotlar 1 copy
Joseph Scaliger : A Bibliography 1850-1993. Second edition. Supplement to… 1 copy
Yıldızların Efendisi Rönesans Astrologu Giordano Cardano'nun Yaşamı 1 copy
The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950-2000 and Beyond 1 copy
Humanists with inky fingers : the culture of correction in Renaissance… 1 copy
'Scrawled Insults and Epiphanies' in NYRB blog, 19 Feb 2015 [review of… 1 copy
'Where it all began. Spinoza & the Dutch roots of the Enlightenment' in… 1 copy
'Violence in words: the damage caused both by destroying texts & by… 1 copy
'The Jew from Tangier' in NYR XLVI/11, 24 June 1999 [review of AB… 1 copy
'Gospel Secrets: the biblical controversies of Morton Smith' in The… 1 copy
Athenae Batavae: the research imperative at Leiden, 1575-1650 1 copy
Traditions of conversion: Descartes and his devil (Doreen B. Townsend… 1 copy
Renaissance Readers and Ancient Texts: Comments on Some Commentaries 1 copy
New Science 1 copy
'The Way to Eden' in The New Republic online, 21 Dec 2006 [review of… 1 copy
Sleuths and analysts 1 copy
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The Prince (Introduction, some editions) 21,074 copies, 232 reviews
The Thirty Years War (Foreword, some editions) 1,148 copies, 15 reviews
The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (Introduction, some editions) 378 copies, 2 reviews
A History of Reading in the West (Contributor) 204 copies, 3 reviews
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Contributor) 96 copies
The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal (Contributor) 96 copies
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe… (Editor) 52 copies
A Century in Books: Princeton University Press 1905-2005 (Contributor) 33 copies, 1 review
The Modern Historiography Reader. Western Sources (Contributor) 32 copies
Books and the Sciences in History (Contributor) 32 copies
The Reader Revealed (Contributor) 30 copies
Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern (Contributor) 22 copies
The Birth of the Past (Foreword) 20 copies, 1 review
Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie (Contributor) 12 copies
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures (Contributor) 10 copies, 1 review
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Grafton, Anthony Thomas
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Grafton, Anthony T.
Date of birth
1950-05-21
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male
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USA
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Birthplace
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Places of residence
Princeton, NJ
Education
University of Chicago (BA | 1972)
University of Chicago (MA | 1972)
University of Chicago (PhD | 1975)
Occupations
Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
President, American Historical Association
Relationships
Erlich, Louise (wife)
Organizations
Phi Beta Kappa (1970)
Renaissance Society of America
American Philosophical Society (1993)
Awards and honors
Balzan Prize (2002)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
Fellow, British Academy (1997)
Rome Prize
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