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FORGERS & CRITICS CREATIVITY & DUPLICITY IN WESTERN SCHOLARSHIP by GRAFTON ANTHONY
Category: History
The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the "criminal sibling" of criticism, Grafton describes a panorama of remarkable individuals--forgers ...Show more
Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe by Anthony Grafton
Category: Languages and Reference
The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book. From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its m ...Show more
Magus - The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Category: History
At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure- the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on everything from secret codes to ...Show more
The Book of My Life by Girolamo Cardano; Jean Stoner (Translator); Anthony Grafton (Introduction by)
Category: History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
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 L ...Show more
The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the af ...Show more
The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the af ...Show more
The Footnote - A Curious History by Anthony Grafton
Category: History
The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the b te 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. In A ...Show more
The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood; Paul Kennedy; Anthony Grafton (Foreword by)
Category: Popular History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
This study of the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648), was first published in 1938. Beginning as a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the War gradually became transformed into a struggle to determine whether the Hapsburgs would gain control of all Germany.
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