early modern period, and, most recently, Worlds Made by Words. His most original and accessible book is The Footnote: A Curious History (1997; published in German as Die Tragischen Ursprünge der deutschen Fußnote), a case study of how the marginal footnote developed as a central and powerful tool in the hands of historians. He also writes on a wide variety of topics for The New Republic, The American Scholar, and The New York Review of Books. He owns a bookwheel which he keeps at hand in his home. Honors Los Angeles Times Book Prize, History, 1993 Member of the American Philosophical Society, elected 1993 Balzan Prize for History of the Humanities, 2002 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2002 Fellow of The British Academy, elected 1997 Honorary degree from Leiden University, 2006 Honorary degree from University of Oxford, 2013 The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2011 Rome Prize Pour le Mérite Guggenheim Fellowship Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Selected publications Articles Grafton, Anthony. "The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950–2000 and Beyond". Journal of the History of Ideas 67#1 (2006): 1–32. online Books Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship, Oxford-Warburg Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983–1993). with Lisa Jardine, From Humanism to the Humanities. Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe (London: Duckworth, 1986). Forgers and Critics. Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990). Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in the Age of Science, 1450–1800 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991). New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995). Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997). The Footnote: A Curious History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997). Cardano's Cosmos : The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999). Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000). Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001). What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). with Megan Hale Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006).