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Product Description: From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early-modern debates about law, religion, and classical scholarship...read more
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9780521874359 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2007), cover price $78.00 | About this edition: From the late-fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories.

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9781107606159 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 30, 2012), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories.
9780521697149 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2007), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: From the late-fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories.

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Product Description: Now in Paperback! What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. The authors, both accomplished writers and historians, sketch the shifting field of graphic representations of history from the beginning of the print age through the present...read more
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9781616890582 | Princeton Architectural Pr, March 21, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Now in Paperback!

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Product Description: Behind every great writer is a great editor—so goes the maxim that writers abhor and publishers adore. The struggle between writer and publisher is as long and fraught as the history of print itself. As distinguished historian Anthony Grafton reveals in The Culture of Correction, even during the Renaissance authors fumed and cursed over what became of their work in the printing house as it was prepared for publication...read more
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9780712358453 | British Library Board, October 15, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Behind every great writer is a great editor—so goes the maxim that writers abhor and publishers adore.

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Product Description: How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world...read more
By Anthony Grafton (foreword by)
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9781421402789 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 29, 2011, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: How did people learn to distinguish between past and present?

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Product Description: In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals, practices, and institutions...read more
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9780674032576 | 1 edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 31, 2009), cover price $31.50 | About this edition: In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals, practices, and institutions.

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9780674060258 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, May 31, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals, practices, and institutions.

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Product Description: Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar’s already celebrated achievement. The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) is known to us through his pedantic namesake in George Eliot’s Middlemarch...read more
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9780674048409, titled "I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship" | Belknap Pr, January 3, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar’s already celebrated achievement.

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Product Description: In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digital skeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions the practices and professional rites of academic historians while analyzing and advocating for the achievements of amateur historians...read more
By Anthony Grafton (introduced by) and Roy Rosenzweig
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9780231150866 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 15, 2010, cover price $82.50 | About this edition: In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history.

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9780231150859 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 15, 2010, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history.

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Product Description: What does history look like? How do you draw time?From the most ancient images to the contemporary, the line has served as the central figure in the representation of time. The linear metaphor is ubiquitous in everyday visual representations of time—in almanacs, calendars, charts, and graphs of all sorts...read more
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9781568987637 | Princeton Architectural Pr, March 3, 2010, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: What does history look like?

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Product Description: Any attempt to understand the roles that textbooks played for early modern teachers and pupils must begin with the sobering realization that the field includes many books that the German word Lehrbuch and its English counterpart do not call to mind...read more
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9782600011860 | Droz Librairie, December 31, 2008, cover price $151.00 | About this edition: Any attempt to understand the roles that textbooks played for early modern teachers and pupils must begin with the sobering realization that the field includes many books that the German word Lehrbuch and its English counterpart do not call to mind.

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Product Description: When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria...read more
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9780674023147 | Belknap Pr, October 9, 2006, cover price $33.50 | About this edition: When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria.

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9780674030480 | Belknap Pr, September 15, 2008, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria.

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Product Description: In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal enterprises but an integral part of the worldview of many of our ancestors. Astrology was one of the many intellectual tools--along with what we consider to be the superior tools of social and political analysis--that Renaissance thinkers used to attack practical and intellectual problems...read more
By Anthony Grafton (editor) and William R. Newman (editor)
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9780262140751 | Mit Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal enterprises but an integral part of the worldview of many of our ancestors.

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9780262640626 | Mit Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal enterprises but an integral part of the worldview of many of our ancestors.

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Product Description: This volume explores religious conversion in late antique and early medieval Europe at a time when the utility of the concept is vigorously debated. Though conversion was commonly represented by ancient and early medieval writers as singular and personally momentous mental events, contributors to this volume find gradual and incomplete social processes lurking behind their words...read more
By Anthony Grafton (editor) and Kenneth Mills (editor)
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9781580461252 | Univ of Rochester Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This volume explores religious conversion in late antique and early medieval Europe at a time when the utility of the concept is vigorously debated.

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Product Description: This volume explores the subject of religious conversion over broad expanses of time and space, considering cases from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries and from settings across the world. Leading scholars from a variety of historical sub-fields address the theme at a moment when the utility of the concept of conversion is vigorously debated...read more
By Anthony Grafton (editor) and Kenneth Mills (editor)
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9781580461238 | Univ of Rochester Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This volume explores the subject of religious conversion over broad expanses of time and space, considering cases from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries and from settings across the world.

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Product Description: A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life, an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct...read more
By Girolamo Cardano, Anthony Grafton (introduced by) and Jean Stoner (trans)
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9781590170168 | New York Review of Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint.

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9780809065066 | Hill & Wang Pub, April 1, 2002, cover price $13.00

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Product Description: Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was one of the most exciting figures of the Italian Renaissance. He wrote the first modern treatise on painting, the first modern manual of classical architecture, and a powerful set of "dialogues" about the princely families of Florence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780809097524 | Hill & Wang Pub, September 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Focusing on one of the great Italian masters of the Renaissance, this fascinating portrait of the great builder shows how Alberti changed the landscape of Florence.

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9780674008687 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 15, 2002, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was one of the most exciting figures of the Italian Renaissance.

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Product Description: Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions won him access to some of the most powerful people in sixteenth-century Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674095557 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe.

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9780674006706 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 15, 2001, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe.

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Product Description: This volume examines the transformation in ways of studying nature that took place in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Some of the essays trace particular textual traditions, while others follow the development of scholarly and professional communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Anthony Grafton (editor) and Nancy Siraisi (editor)
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9780262071932 | Mit Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: This volume examines the transformation in ways of studying nature that took place in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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Product Description: Although Vico lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the hitory, mythology, and law of the ancient world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780140435696 | 3 edition (Penguin Classics, January 1, 2000), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Although Vico lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the hitory, mythology, and law of the ancient world.

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Product Description: The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of modern scholarship...read more
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9780674902152 | Revised edition (Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1997), cover price $38.50 | About this edition: The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of modern scholarship.

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9780674307605 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of modern scholarship.

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Product Description: The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic process that allows for the transformation of previously accepted truth...read more
By Ann Blair (editor) and Anthony Grafton (editor)
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9780812281910, titled "Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe" | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: "The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe" focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision.

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9780812216677 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision.

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Product Description: Usadas profusamente por Kant, rechazadas por Hegel, consideradas ya como una forma excelsa del arte literario, ya como enojosas interrupciones de la lectura, las notas al pie han sido objeto de polémica. A través de un metódico y ameno rastreo de puntos de vista predominantes en diversas épocas, Anthony Grafton expone las diversas funciones que las notas al pie desempeñaron a lo largo de los siglos...read more
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9789505572601 | Fondo De Cultura Economica El, January 1, 1998, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Usadas profusamente por Kant, rechazadas por Hegel, consideradas ya como una forma excelsa del arte literario, ya como enojosas interrupciones de la lectura, las notas al pie han sido objeto de polémica.

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Product Description: The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly charted in this welcome volume from Anthony Grafton. Growing out of the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures that Anthony Grafton gave at the University of Michigan in 1992, this book describes the interaction between books and readers in the Renaissance, as seen in four major case studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780472106264 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 15, 1997, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly charted in this welcome volume from Anthony Grafton.

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Product Description: Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield...read more
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9780674618756 | Belknap Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield.

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9780674618763 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, March 15, 1995), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield.

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Product Description: Anthony Grafton is erudite and elegant in the style of the best historical writers who make the past come alive for the reader. In a full-scale presentation of the world of scholarship, from the Renaissance to the modern period, Grafton sets before us in three-dimensional detail such seminal figures as Poliziano, Scaliger, Kepler, and Wolf...read more
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9780674195455 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 15, 1994), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Anthony Grafton is erudite and elegant in the style of the best historical writers who make the past come alive for the reader.

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