Anthony Grafton is erudite and elegant in the style of the best
historical writers who make the past come alive for the reader. In
a full-scale presentation of the world of scholarship, from the
Renaissance to the modern period, Grafton sets before us in
three-dimensional detail such seminal figures as Poliziano,
Scaliger, Kepler, and Wolf. He calls attention to continuities,
moments of crisis, and changes in direction.
The central issue in "Defenders of the Text" is the relation
between humanism and science from the mid-fifteenth century to the
beginning of the modern period. Treatments of Renaissance humanism
in English have emphasized the humanists' commitment to rhetoric,
ethics, and politics and have accused the humanists of
concentrating on literary matters in preference to investigating
the real world via new developments in science, philosophy, and
other technical disciplines. This revisionist book demonstrates
that humanism was neither a simple nor an impractical enterprise,
but worked hand-in-hand with science in developing modern
learning.
Anthony Grafton makes clear that humanism remained an integral
and vital part of European culture until the eighteenth century,
maintaining a technical component of its own--classical
philology--which developed in as rich, varied, and unexpected a way
as any other field of European thought. Attention to the text led
the humanists to develop a whole range of cools and methods that
lent power to science and learning for centuries to come. Grafton
shows the continued capacity of classical texts to provoke
innovative work in both philology and philosophy, and traces a
number of close and important connections between humanism
andnatural science. His book will be important to intellectual
historians, students of the classics and the classical tradition,
and historians of early modern science.
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