The Footnote
by Anthony Grafton · first published 1997
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Erik Kwakkel is awesome. For more on the history of footnotes, check out Anthony Grafton's The Footnote: A Curious History (http://www.amazon.com/The-Footnote-A-Curious-History/dp/0674...) There's also Chuck Zerby's book, The Devil's in the Details.
on “The Medieval Origins of the Modern Footnote” ↗In Anthony Grafton's The Footnote: A Curious History, he claims that citations practices in the field of history have the tendency to use "cf." -- which normally means something like "compare with this reference" -- to mean "compare with…
on “Why is there no semantic ontology of sentiment in academic citations?” ↗