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Worlds made by words
Anthony Grafton
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"In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals, practices, and institutions. It's like Masonry, but without the secret handshakes. Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modern polymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers and writers."--Jacket.

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Harvard University Press
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English

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Subjects
Learning and scholarship, Civilization, Intellectual life, History, Western Civilization, Europe, civilization, Europe, intellectual life
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Europe, United States, Western Europe

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Table of Contents

Introduction
A sketch map of a lost continent: the republic of letters
A humanist crosses boundaries: Alberti on "historia" and "istoria"
A contemplative scholar: Trithemius conjures the past
The world in a room: Renaissance histories of art and nature
Where was Salomon's house? Ecclesiastical history and the intellectual origins of Bacon's new Atlantis
Chronology, controversy, and community in the republic of letters: the case of Kepler
The universal language: splendors and sorrows of Latin in the modern world
Entrepreneurs of the soul, impresarios of learning: the Jesuits
In no man's land: Christian learning and the Jews
The history of ideas: precept and practice, 1950-2000 and beyond
The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison
Momigliano's method and the Warburg Institute: studies in his middle period
The public intellectual and the American university: Robert Morss Lovett
The public intellectual and the private sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the dinner table
Codex in crisis: the book dematerializes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
940.1
Library of Congress
CB245 .G65 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL22551998M
ISBN 13
9780674032576
LCCN
2008041248
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6353761

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