Anthony T. Grafton who is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, is one of the most accomplished scholars of Renaissance. After completing a Bachelor's Degree in History from University of Chicago, he went on to finish his doctorate from the same institution in 1975. After spending some time at Cornell, he joined Princeton as an Assistant Professor. In 1985, he became a full professor.

Grafton works in many areas and these include the history of books and scholarship, history of science, Renaissance magic, cultural history of Renaissance Europe. He also writes on a wide variety of topics for The New Republic, The American Scholar and New York Review of Books.

Works:

• Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance, Harvard University Press
• Cardano's Cosmos : The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer, Harvard University Press
• Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford-Warburg Studies), Oxford University Press
• Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in the Age of Science, 1450-1800, Harvard University Press
• Footnote: A History, Harvard University Press
• Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation, Harvard University Press