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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (May 31, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674060253
ISBN-13: 978-0674060258
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Opinion Editorial Review Grafton challenges readers to the pursuit of science in the 21st Century by reflecting on their practices and practitioners to consider - from the libraries of the Renaissance in the classes of the late nineteenth and twentieth century university space, where spirits and virtual worlds will meet today foundation of software testing by dorothy graham pdf free download. Part of history, historiography, part autobiography, part, this is a manifesto for the future of the intellectual history of one of its best practitioners foundation of software testing by dorothy graham pdf free download. - Paula Findlen, author of the possession of nature and issuer of the Athanasius Kircher: the last man who has everything (20090514) created what is, here is a deep respect for the achievements of classical learning and humanism knew. This includes trying to keep this tradition alive - in a very difficult time, which seems often the sound of the silence of an archive or library to do better. - Andreas Hess (Times Higher Education 20,090,717) It is extremely rare that a single scientist that love for the archives and the talent to show the world why there are interesting and important ... The extent of the volume of Grafton is huge, and the topics it addresses are uniformly high. He takes his readers on a long journey, the Republic of Letters to the Babel of the Internet. If it is difficult to say whether the road up to the light, there is no doubt that we will not ask someone wiser to lead us. Like Virgil in Dante, Grafton knows all that we encounter on the road. - GW Bowersock (New York Review of Books 20,090,818) Mr. Grafton is anchored in the past, but there is no antique. He is quickly overwhelmed the traditions with current trends link. It includes the latest technological developments and their impact on libraries and reading, as a blessing and a burden. Ideally, new technologies do not replace the old ones, they are too. Cuneiform tablets, papyri, manuscripts and books remain, for science and learning in the broadest sense, if only because the look and feel of the past can be just as important as its content. The larger, more disturbing question is: Who will read the future? Sometimes he sounds a note Grafton elegiac, and he deplores the "dull, provincial scholarship of our time, sadly, clean." Perhaps he is right to do so. However, it is the best proof is that the Republic of Letters is alive and well -. Eric Ormsby (Wall Street Journal 20,091,127) Some of the best and most vivid writing in this new book is reminiscent of the ambience, patrons and "smells of dust and the noble rot" in the paradise of the Bodleian to the old reading room of the British Library, National Library in Paris ( "a building that was all forgotten as a dystopian science fiction of the 1970s sees") in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, each with its own distinctive character and perspective ... It is from this traditional view that Grafton, Renaissance scholar without equal, for the last 40 years, has quickly without passion and relentless examination of the intellectual activities of the great humanists. - Peter Green (Times Literary Supplement 20,091,127) Grafton tests dancing quickly in this huge gap of time between the Renaissance from Google ... Worlds word amounts to a tour of Renaissance scholarship been carried out by someone with a deep understanding of our own time in the history of reading. It is a rewarding combination. - Robert Fulford (National contribution 20,091,205) Anthony Grafton, Grand Master of the libraries and reading, wrote a guide-lovers the Republic of Letters. Worlds with the words: Scholarship and communities in the modern Western world, traces the tradition of the Codex literate humanist scholar, the book that he "paperless"Today. An excellent performance. - Alberto Manguel (Times Literary Supplement 20,100,201) worlds with the words: science and community in the modern Western world is one of the celebrations was the most intelligent and moving of the Republic of Letters I've ever read. Part autobiography (Grafton, we follow around his library, favorite haunts of New York Warburg), the intellectual part of the story, part of the world manifests itself in words creates it, the praise of the old book sing without relying on a crusade against Google and the Luddites all his works. - Mary Beard World (Times Literary Supplement) by Anthony Grafton of words is a sparkling series of essays in praise of books, with moving and sometimes hilarious memories of a life spent in libraries. - Mary Beard (The Scotsman) created this collection of essays over a long period, has a central theme: the world and the love of learning since circa 1400th Grafton, a scholar well in this world, offers a kind of intellectual history that never allows the exchange of ideas that lives to the fullness of life, including the hiding of creative scientists. These people often brilliant, but has become erroneous words of designers worlds (worlds of thought and critical assessment) was prepared. Although he no secret practices that makes motivated by corruption and vanity, Grafton lit loving the characteristics of their studies: scholarship, criticism, courage and creativity, the value of perfect use of language (for a long time, in Latin), and a wide range of inquiries and also possible for the modern individual researchers. Grafton has many admirable qualities in his own research and writing tests. His assessment of the impact of the digital world, the world of learning is as much admire Grafton critically and with a trace of sadness, but shows a balanced opinion. Readers will learn a fascinating introduction to a real world. - EA Breisach (selection)
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