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robertk on Jan 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Way We Write History Has Changed

Meta-history — interesting! For historians of history...

benbreen on Jan 24, 2020 [–]

They exist! Anthony Grafton being perhaps the most celebrated... he wrote an entire book on the history of footnotes and built his own replica of a Renaissance book wheel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Grafton

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