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Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields.

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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 siege engines to magic tricks.Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures ...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands.

A work of rare excellence, a masterpiece that fuses fastidious philological analysis and deft intellectual synthesis and that addresses the traditional concerns of the classicist and the historian with equal sophistication and high accuracy."--Speculum "An absorbing study of Scaliger's criticism and exegesis set against his predecessors' and with frequent glances at later influence."--The Classical World "Provides a masterly picture of the pro...

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This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts have been selected for entry into official canons and then verified, corrected, glossed, interpreted, illustrated, excerpted, performed, archived, and otherwise put to use.

This volume examines the transformation in ways of studying naturethat took place in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenthcenturies.

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Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands.

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Based on the Carl Newell Jackson lectures"--Prelim. p.

A fascinating collection of over 500 essays by a range of scholars on the topics of: literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science, arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology.

Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modern polymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers and writers. Grafton¿s engaging, erudite essays could be a rallying cry for the revival of the liberal arts.

Stylish and erudite study of the use of footnotes by historians and philosophers including Swift, Gibbon and Hegel.

This book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas. Elegant and accessible, it is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr's celebrated Trevelyan Lectures, What Is History?.

The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways 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.The volume covers a broad and fascinating scope of subjects presented by leading scholars....

The Swiss scholar Henricus Glareanus devoted much of his life to studying and teaching Livy's Roman History and devising chronological tables from it. He encouraged his students to copy his handwritten annotations to these tables into their own copies of the History. This volume provides access to a surviving copy from one of Glareanus's students, now kept at Princeton University Library.

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. It was a coherent body of practices, strongly supported by soc...