New Worlds, Ancient Texts

The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery

Anthony Grafton

With April Shelford

With Nancy Siraisi

  • Winner of a 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
  • 1992 Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, History Category

Foreword by Timothy Healy

Introduction

1. A Bound World: The Scholar's Cosmos

2. Navigators and Conquerors: The Universe of the Practical Man

3. All Coherence Gone

4. Drugs and Diseases: New World Biology and Old World Learning

5. A New World of Learning

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Illustration Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: New Worlds, Ancient Texts
  • A photo of the author

photo of Anthony Grafton

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

April Shelford is a graduate student in history at Princeton University.

Nancy Siraisi is Distinguished Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.