Defenders of the Text

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

Anthony Grafton

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$39.00 • £31.95 • €35.00

ISBN 9780674195455

Publication Date: 03/15/1994

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340 pages

6 x 9 inches

2 halftones

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Introduction: The Humanists Reassessed
1. Renaissance Readers and Ancient Texts
2. The Scholarship of Poliziano and Its Context
3. Traditions of Invention and Inventions of Tradition in Renaissance Italy: Annius of Viterbo
4. Scaliger’s Chronology: Philology, Astronomy, World History
5. Protestant versus Prophet: Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegiscus
6. The Strange Deaths of Hermes and the Sibyls
7. Humanism and Science in Rudoiphine Prague: Kepler in Context
8. Isaac La Peyrère and the Old Testament
9. Prolegomena to Friedrich August Wolf
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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