Anthony Grafton
Biography
American historian of early modern Europe and Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University
Sample Works
- Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (2020) Book
- The Footnote: A Curious History (1997) Book
- Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (1990) Book
- Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West (2009) Book
- Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (2000) Book
Roundtable Appearances
January 28, 2017 · ▶ Video
The Library as Reality and Metaphor
The event explored libraries across multiple dimensions -- physical, digital, representational -- and their epistemic, organizational, and memory functions. The roundtable opened...
Daniel Goroff, Anthony Grafton, Carol Mandel, Alberto Manguel, Ken Soehner