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Defenders of the Text

The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450–1800

Anthony Grafton

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ISBN 9780674195455

Publication Date: 03/15/1994

340 pages

6 x 9 inches

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Anthony Grafton is the author of The Footnote, Defenders of the Text, Forgers and Critics, and Inky Fingers, among other books. The Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University, he writes regularly for the New York Review of Books.

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