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The footnote : a curious history
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- Creator
- Anthony Grafton
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [Revised edition]
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997
- Physical Details
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- xi, 241 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674902152, 0674902157
- OCLC
- ocm37030661
- Original English ms. version was translated into German and published under title: Die tragischen Ursprünge der deutschen Fussnote (Berlin, 1995); this is a revision of the original English version.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Footnotes : the origin of a species -- Ranke : a footnote about scientific history -- How the historian found his muse : Ranke's path to the footnote -- Footnotes and philosophie : an enlightenment interlude -- Back to the future, 1 : de thou documents the details --Back to the future, 2 : the antlike industry of ecclesiastical historians and antiquaries -- Clarity and distinctness in the abysses of erudition : the cartesian origins of the modern footnote -- Epilogue : some concluding footnotes