Collectors' Knowledge: What Is Kept, What Is Discarded / Aufbewahren Oder Wegwerfen: Wie Sammler Entscheiden

Anja-Silvia Goeing is anniversary fellow at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and Privatdozent at the University of Zurich. She is currently preparing a book on practices of knowledge transfer at the Zurich lectorium in the sixteenth century. Her work includes studies on fifteenth-century biographies written about the Italian Humanist Vittorino da Feltre (1999; 2013). Anthony T. Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. His interests comprise humanist scholarship and the writing of history in early modern times. Recent publications relating to this volume include a collaborative study of Isaac Casaubon as reader of Hebrew texts (2011) and a collection of early visualizations of timelines: Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, Cartographies of Time (2012). Paul Michel is Professor Emeritus of German Literature to 1700 at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the study of encyclopedias and the organization of knowledge. His latest monograph, Physikotheologie was published in 2008.
Anja-Silvia Goeing is anniversary fellow at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and Privatdozent at the University of Zurich. She is currently preparing a book on practices of knowledge transfer at the Zurich lectorium in the sixteenth century. Her work includes studies on fifteenth-century biographies written about the Italian Humanist Vittorino da Feltre (1999; 2013).Anthony T. Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. His interests comprise humanist scholarship and the writing of history in early modern times. Recent publications relating to this volume include a collaborative study of Isaac Casaubon as reader of Hebrew texts (2011) and a collection of early visualizations of timelines: Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, Cartographies of Time (2012).Paul Michel is Professor Emeritus of German Literature to 1700 at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the study of encyclopedias and the organization of knowledge. His latest monograph, Physikotheologie was published in 2008.