The New Grafton Historical Series
Title | The New Grafton Historical Series PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick H. Hitchcock |
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Release | 1927 |
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Inky Fingers
Title | Inky Fingers PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2020-06-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 067423717X |
The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book. From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as diligent workers. Meticulously illuminating the physical and mental labors that fostered the golden age of the book—the compiling of notebooks, copying and correction of texts and proofs, preparation of copy—he shows us how the exertions of scholars shaped influential books, treatises, and forgeries. Inky Fingers ranges widely, tracing the transformation of humanistic approaches to texts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and examining the simultaneously sustaining and constraining effects of theological polemics on sixteenth-century scholars. Grafton draws new connections between humanistic traditions and intellectual innovations, textual learning and craft knowledge, manuscript and print. Above all, Grafton makes clear that the nitty-gritty of bookmaking has had a profound impact on the history of ideas—that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands.
The Footnote
Title | The Footnote PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674307605 |
In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
Codex in Crisis
Title | Codex in Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Grafton |
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Pages | 64 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Archival materials |
ISBN | 9780979696947 |
New Worlds, Ancient Texts
Title | New Worlds, Ancient Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1995-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674254120 |
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.
Grafton
Title | Grafton PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Marean Casey and the Grafton Historical Society |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467116114 |
"Nestled in the hills 38 miles west of Boston, the area that would become Grafton originally belonged to the Nipmuc Indians. In the mid-1600s, John Eliot, a Puritan missionary, traveled throughout Massachusetts converting the natives to Christianity. He created a series of 'praying Indian' villages, including Hassanamesit. In 1728, most of Hassanamesit was purchased by a group of investors, and in 1735 it was incorporated as the town of Grafton. By the early 19th century, Grafton was a national leader in leather tanning and shoe production. Textile mills appeared along the rivers, attracting emigrant workers from Canada and Europe. Three geographic areas evolved, each with its own identity: Grafton Center, North Grafton, and South Grafton. Today, residents celebrate the differences and salute the forces that brought them together to form one united town. Grafton is the birthplace of the famous Willard clock makers -- Simon, Benjamin, Ephraim and Aaron -- whose home and clock shop are now the Willard House and Clock Museum. Grafton is the birthplace of Robert Bailey Thomas, the founder, editor, and publisher of the 'Old Farmers Almanac'. Native Jerome Wheelock invented a steam valve system, revolutionizing transportation worldwide. Grafton is also the childhood home of noted American poet Frank O'Hara." -- Page 4 of cover.
History of Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Title | History of Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Clifton Pierce |
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Pages | 720 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Grafton (Mass.) |
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