Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Footnotes: The Origin of a Species

2. Ranke: A Footnote about Scientific History

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

4. Footnotes and Philosophie: An Enlightenment Interlude

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

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

7. Clarity and Distinctness in the Abysses of Erudition: The Cartesian Origins of the Modern Footnote

Epilogue: Some Concluding Footnotes

Index

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Chair of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.

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