Footnote A Curious History

Name: Footnote A Curious History
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ISBN: 9780674307605

ISBN-10: 0674307607

ISBN-13: 9780674307605

Edition: 1997

Authors: Anthony Grafton

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The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the becirc;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 Anthony Grafton's engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form. Grafton treats the development of the footnote--the one form of proof normally supplied by historians in support of their assertions--as writers on science have long treated the development of…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.13" wide x 8.87" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Footnotes: The Origin of a Species



Ranke: A Footnote about Scientific History



How the Historian Found His Muse: Ranke's Path to the Footnote



Footnotes and Philosophie: An Enlightenment Interlude



Back to the Future, 1: De Thou Documents the Details



Back to the Future, 2: The Antlike Industry of Ecclesiastical Historians and Antiquaries



Clarity and Distinctness in the Abysses of Erudition


The Cartesian Origins of the Modern Footnote Epilogue


Some Concluding Footnotes


Index