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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

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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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The Footnote: A Curious History 492 copies, 5 reviews
Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline 436 copies, 4 reviews
The Classical Tradition (Editor) 339 copies, 1 review
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the… 147 copies
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance 143 copies
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of… 143 copies, 1 review
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West 127 copies
What was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe 115 copies, 1 review
Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Author) 101 copies, 2 reviews
Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science,… 97 copies
Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship 97 copies
Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe 81 copies
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture 80 copies
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation 57 copies
"I have always loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a… 46 copies, 1 review
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Thomas… 40 copies
Codex in Crisis 31 copies, 1 review
The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (Editor) 26 copies
World Philology (Contributor) 25 copies
From Humanism to the Humanities 24 copies
The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe 20 copies
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume… 19 copies, 1 review
Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe… 16 copies
How to Build a Life in the Humanities: Meditations on the Academic… 14 copies, 1 review
Magic and Technology in Early Modern Europe- Dibner Library Lecture 15… 12 copies
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume… 12 copies
La page de l'antiquité à l'ère du… 11 copies
Los orígenes trágicos de la erudición (Spanish Edition) 8 copies
The art of discovery: digging into the past in Renaissance Europe (Author) 7 copies
Canonical texts and scholarly practices : a global comparative approach 3 copies
Humanists with inky fingers : the culture of correction in Renaissance… 2 copies
Der Magus. 2 copies
The Uses of Greek and Latin: Historical Essays (Warburg Institute surveys… (Editor) 2 copies
'Violence in words: the damage caused both by destroying texts & by… 1 copy
Yıldızların Efendisi Rönesans Astrologu Giordano Cardano'nun Yaşamı 1 copy
'Where it all began. Spinoza & the Dutch roots of the Enlightenment' in… 1 copy
'The Way to Eden' in The New Republic online, 21 Dec 2006 [review of… 1 copy
Fälscher und Kritiker : der Betrug in der Wissenschaft 1 copy
La Cultura De La Corrección De Textos En El Renacimiento Europeo 1 copy
Kalpazanlar ve elestirmenler. Bati tarihçiliginde yaraticilik ve… 1 copy
Dipnotlar 1 copy
The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950-2000 and Beyond 1 copy
The Thirty Years War 1 copy
The Penguin History of Europe Volume 4: Renaissance Europe (Allen Lane… 1 copy
Athenae Batavae: the research imperative at Leiden, 1575-1650 1 copy
Kalpazanlar ve eleştirmenler: Batı tarihçiliğinde yaratıcılık ve… 1 copy
'Gospel Secrets: the biblical controversies of Morton Smith' in The… 1 copy
Sleuths and analysts 1 copy
Renaissance Readers and Ancient Texts: Comments on Some Commentaries 1 copy
New Science 1 copy
'The Jew from Tangier' in NYR XLVI/11, 24 June 1999 [review of AB… 1 copy
'Scrawled Insults and Epiphanies' in NYRB blog, 19 Feb 2015 [review of… 1 copy
Traditions of conversion: Descartes and his devil (Doreen B. Townsend… 1 copy
Joseph Scaliger : A Bibliography 1850-1993. Second edition. Supplement to… 1 copy
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Also by Anthony Grafton
The Prince (Introduction, some editions) 22,793 copies, 248 reviews
The Thirty Years War (Foreword, some editions) 1,249 copies, 18 reviews
The New Science (Introduction, some editions) 986 copies, 5 reviews
The History of Rome : from the foundation of the city to the sole rule of… (Foreword, some editions) 418 copies, 2 reviews
The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715 (Introduction, some editions) 413 copies, 2 reviews
A History of Reading in the West (Contributor) 212 copies, 3 reviews
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Contributor) 105 copies
The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal (Contributor) 102 copies, 1 review
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe… (Editor) 54 copies
The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources (Contributor) 36 copies
A Century in Books: Princeton University Press 1905-2005 (Contributor) 35 copies, 1 review
Books and the Sciences in History (Contributor) 35 copies
The Reader Revealed (Contributor) 32 copies
Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern (Contributor) 23 copies
The Birth of the Past (Foreword) 23 copies, 1 review
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Grafton, Anthony
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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
Place of death
Cause of death
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)
Agents
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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