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Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700
How man invented time...: This is a great book on the evolution of time measuring machines. But its real value is in the large amount of bibliographic references. My dad loves it: My dad's always been interested in clocks; when I saw this book, I bought [... more]
$12.95
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Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and ...
Author: Anthony Grafton Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 880.09 EAN: 9780472106264 ISBN: 0472106260 Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: 1997-12-15 [... more]
$50.00
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Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance ...
Amazon.com Review: It's sometimes hard to remember that once upon a time, astrology was state-of-the-art science. It was inextricably wound up with astronomical observation, after all, and good Renaissance men often pursued both avocations. Preeminent [... more]
$16.95
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Cardano's Cosmos : The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance ...
Amazon.com Review: It's sometimes hard to remember that once upon a time, astrology was state-of-the-art science. It was inextricably wound up with astronomical observation, after all, and good Renaissance men often pursued both avocations. Preeminent [... more]
$51.00
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New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and ...
overseas overviews: Not the most stunning or innovative of Professor Grafton's works, makes a sweeping review from the expectations held by the world of humanists received from Greek, Latin, and Arabic forerunners to the explosion and expansion of these [... more]
$29.50
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The Footnote: A Curious History
Amazon.com Review: The struggle over what history is and how it should be told affects even such a constant convention as the footnote. As Anthony Grafton tells us in his entertaining study The Footnote, this tool of scholarship is just that: a tool that [... more]
$38.50
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Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian ...
A review by a decendant: My surname is Alberti (52 years old), I am a direct decendant of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72). It was a very personal experience to read Mr. Graftons book. How often in this fast paced world do we forget our roots and our [... more]
$23.00
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The Footnote: A Curious History
Amazon.com Review: The struggle over what history is and how it should be told affects even such a constant convention as the footnote. As Anthony Grafton tells us in his entertaining study The Footnote, this tool of scholarship is just that: a tool that [... more]
$17.00
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The Foundations of Early Modern Europe 1460-1559 (The ...
Succinct yet insightful, scholarly yet readable. A classic.: Rice's work is a superb short survey of the technology and ideas that created our modern world. Despite the high level of scholarship, the text is eminently readable with a graceful, lucid [... more]
$25.95
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Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation
Erudite, Often Witty Look at the Republic of Letters: Anthony Grafton acknowledges that his is an under-appreciated job. He is a scholar studying scholars, particularly those that comprised a Republic of Letters, humanists from the Renaissance until the [... more]
$54.50
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Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation
Erudite, Often Witty Look at the Republic of Letters: Anthony Grafton acknowledges that his is an under-appreciated job. He is a scholar studying scholars, particularly those that comprised a Republic of Letters, humanists from the Renaissance until the [... more]
$18.50
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Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western ...
anecdotal: A short book on the history of forged historical documents, and efforts to detect them, from ancient to modern times. It skips around too much, without giving enough context for most of its anecdotes. Part of its larger message is that both [... more]
$32.50
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