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According to Wikipedia, Anthony Thomas Grafton is an American historian of early modern Europe and the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, where he is also the Director the Program in European Cultural Studies. He is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Balzan Prize. From January 2011 to January 2012, he served as the President of the American Historical Association. From 2006 to 2020, Grafton was co-executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

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“STUDIED FOR ACTION”: HOW GABRIEL HARVEY READ HIS LIVY (1990) (510)
From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Europe (1988) (329)
The Footnote: A Curious History (2004) (277)
The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform, 1626-1660 (1978) (233)
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (1994) (183)
Essays in ancient and modern historiography (1978) (148)
Renaissance Readers and Ancient Texts: Comments on Some Commentaries (1985) (136)
Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (1990) (127)
Hercules at the Crossroads: The Life, Works, and Thought of Coluccio Salutati. (1983) (123)
Joseph Scaliger : a study in the history of classical scholarship (1985) (111)
From Humanism to the Humanities (1988) (109)
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (2006) (96)
Holland without Huizinga: Dutch Visual Culture in the Seventeenth Century@@@The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (1985) (90)
On the Scholarship of Politian and Its Context (1977) (82)
Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 (1991) (80)
What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (2008) (74)
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (2003) (69)
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West (2009) (65)
Prolegomena to Friedrich August Wolf (1981) (61)
The classical tradition (2010) (60)
Rome reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance culture (1993) (59)
The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950-2000 and Beyond (2006) (57)
Cartographies of time (2010) (55)
The Measure of Times Past: Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time. (1987) (54)
The Importance of Being Printed@@@The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe (1980) (53)
HUMANISM AND THE SCHOOL OF GUARINO: A PROBLEM OF EVALUATION (1982) (53)
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (2000) (52)
Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe (2001) (52)
Joseph Scaliger and Historical Chronology: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline (1975) (51)
Protestant versus Prophet: Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegistus (1983) (50)
The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (1990) (42)
Is the History of Reading a Marginal Enterprise? Guillaume Budé and His Books (1997) (42)
1. Invention of Traditions and Traditions of Invention in Renaissance Europe: The Strange Case of Annius of Viterbo (1990) (40)
Humanism and political theory (1991) (38)
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (1997) (38)
Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (2001) (33)
“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (2011) (32)
A Fifteenth-Century Site Report on the Vatican Obelisk (1995) (30)
The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe (2012) (27)
How Revolutionary Was the Print Revolution (2002) (27)
Technical Chronology and Astrological History in Varro, Censorinus and Others (1985) (27)
The Footnote from De Thou to Ranke (1994) (26)
The World of the Polyhistors: Humanism and Encyclopedism (1985) (25)
Obelisk: A History (2009) (23)
Bring out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (2003) (22)
Reassessing Humanism and Science (1992) (20)
Canonical texts and scholarly practices : a global comparative approach (2016) (18)
Historia and Istoria: Alberti's Terminology in Context (1999) (16)
The Uses of Greek and Latin : historical essays (1988) (15)
Conflict and Harmony in the Collegium Gellianum (2004) (15)
Prolegomena to Homer 1795 (1986) (14)
Information: A Historical Companion (2021) (14)
Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google (2009) (13)
Calendar Dates and Ominous Days in Ancient Historiography (1988) (12)
Dating history: the Renaissance & the reformation of chronology (2003) (12)
The Horoscope of the Foundation of Rome (1986) (12)
Matthew Parker: The Book as Archive (2017) (12)
The new science and the traditions of humanism (1996) (11)
Magic and Technology in Early Modern Europe (2005) (11)
Jean Hardouin: The Antiquary as Pariah (1999) (11)
The Republic of Letters in the American Colonies: Francis Daniel Pastorius Makes a Notebook (2012) (11)
European Reference Index for the Humanities (2009) (10)
Scholarly Knowledge: Textbooks in Early Modern Europe (2008) (10)
Martin Bernal and his critics (1997) (8)
History's postmodern fates (2006) (8)
Maryādām Ullaṅghya: The boundaries of interpretation in early modern India (2016) (8)
Some Uses of Eclipses in Early Modern Chronology (2003) (7)
Rhetoric, Philology and Egyptomania in the 1570s: J. J. Scaliger's Invective against M. Guilandinus's Papyrus (1979) (7)
Petronius and Neo-Latin Satire: The Reception of the Cena Trimalchionis (1990) (7)
Passing The Book: Cultures of Reading in the Winthrop Family, 1580–1730* (2018) (6)
From De die natali to De emendatione temporum: The Origins and Setting of Scaliger's Chronology (1985) (6)
Michael Maestlin's Account of Copernican Planetary Theory (1973) (6)
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris (2014) (6)
Philological and Artisanal Knowledge Making in Renaissance Natural History: A Study in Cultures of Knowledge (2018) (5)
Historians and Ideologues Essays in Honor of Donald R. Kelley (2001) (5)
Church History in Early Modern Europe: Tradition and Innovation (2012) (5)
7. Humanist Philologies: Texts, Antiquities, and Their Scholarly Transformations in the Early Modern West (2015) (5)
Joseph Scaliger's Edition of Catullus (1577) and the Traditions of Textual Criticism in the Renaissance (1975) (4)
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book (2009) (4)
Migration in history : human migration in comparative perspective (2007) (4)
Comparisons Compared: A Study in the Early Modern Roots of Cultural History (2018) (4)
Forging Links with the Past@@@Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship@@@Fake? The Art of Deception@@@Did the Greeks Believe in their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination@@@Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance (1991) (4)
Introduction: Notes from Underground on Cultural Transmission (1990) (4)
Greek Chronography in Roman Epic: The Calendrical Date of the Fall of Troy in the Aeneid (1986) (4)
Obelisks and Empires of the Mind (2016) (3)
The Nutty Professors: The History of Academic Charisma (2006) (3)
Humanists with inky fingers : the culture of correction in Renaissance Europe (2011) (3)
Renaissance Readers of Homer’s Ancient Readers (2019) (3)
The Popes and Humanism (1993) (3)
Inky Fingers (2020) (3)
Christianity’s Jewish Origins Rediscovered: The Roles of Comparison in Early Modern Ecclesiastical Scholarship (2016) (3)
How to do things with texts: An introduction (2016) (3)
How to Build a Life in the Humanities: Meditations on the Academic Work-Life Balance (2015) (3)
Making sense of Suetonius in the twelfth century (2016) (3)
Starry Messengers: Recent Work in the History to Western Astrology1 (2000) (2)
Humanism, l’Esprit Philosophique, and the Encyclopédie (2009) (2)
Towards the Early Modern Separation of Disciplines: From Philology to Science and History--Joseph Justus Scaliger@@@Joesph Scaliger. A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship, II: Historical Chronology (1996) (2)
From Politian to Pasquali (1977) (2)
The Revival of Antiquity: A Fan's Notes on Recent Work (1998) (2)
In the Margins of Josephus: Two Ways of Reading (2016) (2)
Iter italicum. Accedunt alia itinera. A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries. Vol. III (Alia itinera I): Australia to Germany.Paul Oskar Kristeller (1986) (2)
La historia de las ideas : preceptos y prácticas, 1950-2000 y más allá (2007) (2)
Girolamo Cardano and the Tradition of Classical Astrology: the Rothschild Lecture, 1995 (1998) (2)
Henricus Glareanus's, 1488-1563, Chronologia of the Ancient World: A Facsimile Edition of a Heavily Annotated Copy Held in Princeton University Library (2013) (2)
Canonical texts and scholarly practices (2016) (2)
For the sake of learning: essays in honor of Anthony Grafton (2016) (2)
PROOF AND PERSUASION IN HISTORY: A PREFACE (1994) (2)
The Study of the Timaeus in Early Renaissance Italy (1999) (2)
Johann Buxtorf makes a notebook (2016) (2)
De polyhistor en philologue (2000) (2)
The Precept System: Myth and Reality of a Princeton Institution (2003) (1)
Chapter Eleven: Reforming the Dream (2006) (1)
Where history meets art (1993) (1)
STUDIED FOR ACTION - HOW HARVEY,GABRIEL READ HIS LIVY (1990) (1)
Impagination – Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication (2021) (1)
La lectura futura (2008) (1)
El lector humanista (1997) (1)
Scaliger’s Chronology (2019) (1)
Traditions of Conversion: Descartes and His Dem (1999) (1)
Mixed Messages: The Early Modern Reception of Eusebius as a Church Historian (2019) (1)
Spinoza’s hermeneutics : some heretical thoughts (2017) (1)
An unknown medieval Coptic Hebraism? On a momentous junction of Jewish and Coptic biblical studies (2016) (1)
3. Eusebius’s Chronicle: History Made Visible (2006) (1)
Of Chymists and Kings (2012) (1)
The Origins of Scholarship (2016) (1)
Petrus Apianus Draws up a Calendar (2011) (1)
Book Review:The Atlantic Vision: Olaus Rudbeck and Baroque Science Gunnar Eriksson (1995) (1)
Secrets of nature : astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe (2015) (1)
The Jewish Book in Christian Europe (2014) (1)
Portrait of Justus Lipsius (2016) (1)
3. The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine (2019) (1)
Elementary textbooks in the 18th century and their theory of the learning child (2008) (1)
Isaac Vossius, Chronologer (2012) (1)
F. A. Wolf: Prolegomena to Homer (1795) (1988) (1)
John Selden: The Life of Scholarship G. J. Toomer .John Selden: A Life in Scholarship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 1,010 pages in 2 volumes; isbn: 9780199207039 (2011) (1)
Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective (2015) (1)
Censorinus' Aureolus Libellus (1985) (1)
Pasión por el pasado (2004) (0)
A Florentine Looks at Florence: Piero Cennini on the Baptistery and the Feast of St John (2022) (0)
SCHOLARSHIP: Mark Pattison (2016) (0)
Past Belief (2019) (0)
Error Messages: Night Thoughts Inspired by James O'Donnell's Avatars of the Word (2001) (0)
Review: Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance by Liane Lefaivre (2000) (0)
The Scaliger collection . supplement : Joseph Scaliger : a bibliography 1850-1993 (1993) (0)
Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writter and Art Collector by Susan Nalezyty; Pietro Bembo on Etna by Gareth Williams (2018) (0)
Humanists and Sewers: A Comment and a Coda (1989) (0)
donald j. wilcox. The Measure of Times Past: Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1987. Pp. ix, 292. $27.50 (1990) (0)
What was History?: Historical criticism in early modern Europe (2012) (0)
Facsimile and Transcription of Hummelberg’s Annotations (2014) (0)
6. The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters (2017) (0)
Archeologies of Reading: Modeling and Recreating the Annotation Practices of Gabriel Harvey, John Dee, Jacques Derrida, and the Winthrop Family (2017) (0)
Reading Across Borders in Renaissance Europe (2012) (0)
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular (2019) (0)
TEACHING: Arnaldo Momigliano: A Pupil's Notes (2016) (0)
Books Received (2010) (0)
Some Early Citizens of the Respublica Litterarum Sacrarum: Christian Scholars and the Masorah Before 1550 (2018) (0)
Scholarly Knowledge: Textbooks in Early Modern Europe, Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance (2008) (0)
Forgers and Critics, New Edition (2019) (0)
Tractatus de praecognitionibus et praecognitis and Tractatio de demonstratione. Galileo Galilei , William F. Edwards , William A. Wallace (1992) (0)
Rhetoric and divination in Erasmus's edition of Jerome (2021) (0)
Lisa Jardine: A Life in the Margins (2020) (0)
Jill Kraye: The History of Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (2017) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. Renaissance Readers of Homer's Ancient Readers (2019) (0)
'The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought.' Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton and Jill Kraye, eds. Warburg Institute Colloquia. London: Warburg Institute, 2019 (2020) (0)
Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity by Daniel Stolzenberg;.... (2013) (0)
4. Eusebius at Caesarea: A Christian Impresario of the Codex (2006) (0)
Historians Look at the New Histories of Philosophy (2004) (0)
Latin: Story of a World Language by Jürgen Leonhardt, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg (2015) (0)
List of Manuscripts and Books Cited in These Essays Which Were Owned or Annotated by William Lambarde (2018) (0)
Review. Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of the Law. Maclean, Ian (1994) (0)
Book Review:The Uses of Antiquity: The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition Stephen Gaukroger (1993) (0)
IRENAEUS, THE “CANON OF TRUTH,” AND THE GOSPEL OF JOHN: “MAKING A DIFFERENCE” THROUGH HERMENEUTICS AND RITUAL by ELAINE PAGELS (2011) (0)
The Condition of History: Cliff Notes (1999) (0)
Joseph Scaliger. A Bibliography 1850-1993. (1993) (0)
The Public Intellectual and the American University: Robert Morss Lovett Revisited (2016) (0)
CHRISTIAN HEBRAISM AND THE REDISCOVERY OF HELLENISTIC JUDAISM (2014) (0)
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography and the Culture of Knowledge in Late 16th-Century Rome by Pamela Long (2019) (0)
In the Margins of Josephus: Two Ways of Reading (2016) (0)
Introduction: Warburg's Library and Its Legacy (2012) (0)
1. Origen at Caesarea: A Christian Philosopher among His Books (2006) (0)
2. Origen’s Hexapla: Scholarship, Culture, and Power (2006) (0)
SCHOLARSHIP: Close Encounters of the Learned Kind: Joseph Scaliger's Table Talk (2016) (0)
Introduction: The Life Cycle of the First County History: William Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent from Conception to Reception (2018) (0)
Gods on clay: Ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions (2016) (0)
History, Politics, and Culture (2021) (0)
Chronologies as Collections (2013) (0)
Chapter 6. The Margin as Canvas: A Forgotten Function of the Early Printed Page (2021) (0)
Francesco Guicciardini: The Historian's Craft (review) (2008) (0)
Book Review: Gallic Calendars, Recueil des Inscriptions Gauloises (1990) (0)
Method and madness in the ars historica: three case studies (2012) (0)
What was History?: The origins of the ars historica : a question mal posée? (2012) (0)
Good company : Spinoza the traditionalist and some unexpected friends (2016) (0)
Renaissance and Seventeenth Century (1981) (0)
Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe by Victor Plahte Tschudi (2017) (0)
‘Pandects of the Jews’: A French, Swiss and Italian Prelude to John Selden (2016) (0)
A Medical Man Among Ecclesiastical Historians: John Caius, Matthew Parker and the History of Cambridge University (2017) (0)
Questions Framing the Research / Fragen an das Forschungsgebiet (2013) (0)
Time and Architecture in Premodern Italy: A Review of Marvin Trachtenberg’s Building-In-Time (2013) (0)
Classifying the Rigveda on the basis of ritual usage: The deity-of-the- formula system (2016) (0)
Chronologia est unica historiae lux: how Glarean studied and taught the chronology of the ancient world (2013) (0)
Mercator Maps Time (2012) (0)
Books Received (1986) (0)
scholarship, classical, history of (2016) (0)
Lines of Beauty: In Honor of David Quint (2021) (0)
Introduction: Scholars, Books, and Libraries in the Christian Tradition (2006) (0)
28. Quattrocento Humanism and Classical Scholarship (1988) (0)
Reviews (2011) (0)
An Urban Scientific Community (2008) (0)
Aeneas, Ajax, Arachne, Basilisk, Cupid, Galatea, Pegasus (2010) (0)
Aristotle and Aristotelianism (2010) (0)
Coda: Caesarea in History and Tradition (2006) (0)
Conrad Gessner and John Caius: The Meanings of Learned Friendship in Renaissance Europe (2019) (0)
Jerry H. Bentley, Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 245. $23.50. (1985) (0)
Index of Names / Namensregister (2013) (0)
Humanism, Magic and Science (2014) (0)
Letters and Epistolography (2010) (0)
Arnaldo Momigliano: The Historian of History (2019) (0)
Learned Reading in the Atlantic Colonies: How Humanist Practices Crossed the Atlantic (2020) (0)
Momigliano at the Warburg: The Origins of a Style (2016) (0)
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus 'Germania' from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher Krebs (2011) (0)
The 2019 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: The Winged Eye at Work: Leon Battista Alberti Surveys Old St. Peter's (2020) (0)
Book reviews (1980) (0)
The Art of Discovery (2022) (0)
Antiquarians in Action (2021) (0)
PREMODERN REGIMES AND PRACTICES (2021) (0)
We Will Remember Zion (2021) (0)
AFTERWORD (2019) (0)
SCROLLS AND ROLLS (2021) (0)
and the archaeologies of in (2019) (0)
Past Belief: (2019) (0)
INTRODUCTION (2021) (0)
A Century in Books (2005) (0)
FOREWORD (1993) (2020) (0)
Essay Review: Copernicus without Tears, Introductions à l'astronomie de Copernic. Le Commentariolus de Copernic. La Narratio prima de Rheticus (1980) (0)
La desgracia de las universidades británicas (2010) (0)
Gran Bretaña. La vergüenza de las universidades (2010) (0)
Isaac La Peyrère. Praeadamitae – Systema theologicum (2021) (0)
José De Acosta (2007) (0)
Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, Vol. IV. Ed. F. Edward Cranz, with Paul Oskar Kristeller. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1980. xxii + 524 pp. $59.95. (1982) (0)

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