The Footnote: A Curious History
- ISBN-10
- 0674307607
- ISBN-13
- 9780674307605
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 241
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Anthony Grafton
Description
In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
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