Dániel Margócsy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1207241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dániel Margócsy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dániel |
| FAMILY NAME | Margócsy |
| SIGNATURE | MARGÓCSY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0478-4821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reading Machiavelli in 1943
This article examines how wartime conditions affect the practice of reading. Its focus is on how Machiavelli’s The Prince was read by a high school student, Gábor Fehér, in Hungary in World War II. By examining how Fehér studied Machiavelli to understand Hitler, and how Fehér reflected on contemporary thinkers’ writings about modernity, this article offers a contribution toward understanding how people from all walks of life reflected on the mean…
Translation at Work
important questions about how the practical problems of rendering scientific texts from one language to another generate new knowledge, and how choices of translation shape what science and medicine mean to different communities.1If the earlier scholarship on translation theory engaged primarily with works of literature, this growing interest in scientific and medical works challenges old assumptions that science either speaks the universal langu…
‘A Spring of Immortal Colours’. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533–1588) and Picturing Plants in the Sixteenth Century
The Huguenot refugee artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues is traditionally known for his observations of North America and as the author of numerous albums of floral drawings. This article reassesses the attribution of several of these albums to Le Moyne based on documentary and stylistic evidence. It identifies the sixteenth-century Huguenot nobleman and diplomat Jacques de Morogues as the owner of one of the albums, and it discusses the productio…
Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation
It is the aim of this article to put questions of maintenance and repair in the history of science and technology under scrutiny, with a special focus on technologies and methods of transportation. The history of transportation is a history of trying to avoid shipwrecks and plane crashes. It is also a history of broken masts, worm-eaten hulls, the flat tires of cars, and endless delays at airports. This introductory article assesses the technolog…
Datafication, Power and Control in Development
The collection, processing, storage and circulation of data are fundamental element of contemporary societies. While the positivistic literature on ‘data revolution’ finds it essential for improving development delivery, critical data studies stress the threats of datafication. In this article, we demonstrate that datafication has been happening continuously through history, driven by political and economic pressures. We use historical examples t…
Malinowski and malacology
This article situates the collecting practices of museums of natural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in dialogue with similar practices amongst societies in the Pacific by focusing on how European curators, dealers in natural history and Pacific Islanders shared a common fascination with Spondylus shells. In particular, this article examines the processes for turning Spondylus shells into unique or duplicate specimens. Spo…
Starry Messengers
Horses, Curiosities, and the Culture of Collection at Early Modern Germanic Courts
This article offers a new interpretation of the concept of wonder in early modern Europe by focusing on large collections. It shows that many princely Kunstkammern were located above stables, and argues that the horses downstairs and the curiosities upstairs performed similar roles in the courtly display of power. The size and design of stables shaped how curiosities were exhibited and viewed. These majestic buildings facilitated cursory viewing …
"Dániel Margócsy. Review of "Insect Artifice
A long history of breakdowns
The introduction to this special issue argues that network breakdowns play an important and unacknowledged role in the shaping and emergence of scientific knowledge. It focuses on transnational scientific networks from the early modern Republic of Letters to 21st-century globalized science. It attempts to unite the disparate historiography of the early modern Republic of Letters, the literature on 20th-century globalization, and the scholarship o…
Elegant Anatomy
Vesalius’ Fabrica
This article provides a listing of known copies of the first two folio editions of Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1543 and 1555), revising earlier estimates. It shows that the Fabrica survives in much higher numbers than previously reported, and has a much wider geographical distribution, as well. The authors discuss the methodologies for conducting census in the digital age, provide an estimate of the print runs, and compare the s…
The Fuzzy Metrics of Money
This article argues that commerce and the language of finance had an important influence over the interpretation of curiosities in the early modern period. It traces how learned travellers in the years around 1700 were constantly reminded to watch their purses and to limit their expenses while on the road. As a result, monetary matters also influenced their appreciation of artificialia and naturalia. They judged and compared the aesthetic value o…
States of secrecy
This introductory article provides an overview of the historiography of scientific secrecy from J.D. Bernal and Robert Merton to this day. It reviews how historians and sociologists of science have explored the role of secrets in commercial and government-sponsored scientific research through the ages. Whether focusing on the medieval, early modern or modern periods, much of this historiography has conceptualized scientific secrets as valuable in…
Refer to folio and number
The Swiss natural historian Johann Amman came to Russia in 1733 to take a position as professor of botany and natural history at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. As part of the job, he corresponded, and exchanged plant specimens, with the English merchant collector Peter Collinson in London, and the Swedish scholar Carolus Linnaeus, among others. After briefly reviewing Amman's correspondence with these scholars and the growing commerce in…
Advertising cadavers in the republic of letters
This paper sketches how late seventeenth-century Dutch anatomists used printed publications to advertise their anatomical preparations, inventions and instructional technologies to an international clientele. It focuses on anatomists Frederik Ruysch (1638–1732) and Lodewijk de Bils (1624–69), inventors of two separate anatomical preparation methods for preserving cadavers and body parts in a lifelike state for decades or centuries. Ruysch's and d…
Hope and Healing
Reviewed by: Hope and Healing: Painting in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 Dániel Margócsy and Michael Sappol Hope and Healing: Painting in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800. Held at and organized by the Worcester Art Museum, in partnership with Clark University and the College of the Holy Cross, 3 April–25 September 2005. Curated by Gauvin A. Bailey, Pamela M. Jones, Franco Mormando, and Thomas W. Worcester. http://www.worcesterart.org/Hope/ In the mid-fo…
States of secrecy
This introductory article provides an overview of the historiography of scientific secrecy from J.D. Bernal and Robert Merton to this day. It reviews how historians and sociologists of science have explored the role of secrets in commercial and government-sponsored scientific research through the ages. Whether focusing on the medieval, early modern or modern periods, much of this historiography has conceptualized scientific secrets as valuable in…
Datafication, Power and Control in Development
The collection, processing, storage and circulation of data are fundamental element of contemporary societies. While the positivistic literature on ‘data revolution’ finds it essential for improving development delivery, critical data studies stress the threats of datafication. In this article, we demonstrate that datafication has been happening continuously through history, driven by political and economic pressures. We use historical examples t…
Refer to folio and number
The Swiss natural historian Johann Amman came to Russia in 1733 to take a position as professor of botany and natural history at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. As part of the job, he corresponded, and exchanged plant specimens, with the English merchant collector Peter Collinson in London, and the Swedish scholar Carolus Linnaeus, among others. After briefly reviewing Amman's correspondence with these scholars and the growing commerce in…
Malinowski and malacology
This article situates the collecting practices of museums of natural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in dialogue with similar practices amongst societies in the Pacific by focusing on how European curators, dealers in natural history and Pacific Islanders shared a common fascination with Spondylus shells. In particular, this article examines the processes for turning Spondylus shells into unique or duplicate specimens. Spo…
Horses, Curiosities, and the Culture of Collection at Early Modern Germanic Courts
This article offers a new interpretation of the concept of wonder in early modern Europe by focusing on large collections. It shows that many princely Kunstkammern were located above stables, and argues that the horses downstairs and the curiosities upstairs performed similar roles in the courtly display of power. The size and design of stables shaped how curiosities were exhibited and viewed. These majestic buildings facilitated cursory viewing …
The Fuzzy Metrics of Money
This article argues that commerce and the language of finance had an important influence over the interpretation of curiosities in the early modern period. It traces how learned travellers in the years around 1700 were constantly reminded to watch their purses and to limit their expenses while on the road. As a result, monetary matters also influenced their appreciation of artificialia and naturalia. They judged and compared the aesthetic value o…
Hope and Healing
Reviewed by: Hope and Healing: Painting in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 Dániel Margócsy and Michael Sappol Hope and Healing: Painting in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800. Held at and organized by the Worcester Art Museum, in partnership with Clark University and the College of the Holy Cross, 3 April–25 September 2005. Curated by Gauvin A. Bailey, Pamela M. Jones, Franco Mormando, and Thomas W. Worcester. http://www.worcesterart.org/Hope/ In the mid-fo…
Advertising cadavers in the republic of letters
This paper sketches how late seventeenth-century Dutch anatomists used printed publications to advertise their anatomical preparations, inventions and instructional technologies to an international clientele. It focuses on anatomists Frederik Ruysch (1638–1732) and Lodewijk de Bils (1624–69), inventors of two separate anatomical preparation methods for preserving cadavers and body parts in a lifelike state for decades or centuries. Ruysch's and d…
Refer to folio and number
The Swiss natural historian Johann Amman came to Russia in 1733 to take a position as professor of botany and natural history at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. As part of the job, he corresponded, and exchanged plant specimens, with the English merchant collector Peter Collinson in London, and the Swedish scholar Carolus Linnaeus, among others. After briefly reviewing Amman's correspondence with these scholars and the growing commerce in…
States of secrecy
This introductory article provides an overview of the historiography of scientific secrecy from J.D. Bernal and Robert Merton to this day. It reviews how historians and sociologists of science have explored the role of secrets in commercial and government-sponsored scientific research through the ages. Whether focusing on the medieval, early modern or modern periods, much of this historiography has conceptualized scientific secrets as valuable in…
The Fuzzy Metrics of Money
This article argues that commerce and the language of finance had an important influence over the interpretation of curiosities in the early modern period. It traces how learned travellers in the years around 1700 were constantly reminded to watch their purses and to limit their expenses while on the road. As a result, monetary matters also influenced their appreciation of artificialia and naturalia. They judged and compared the aesthetic value o…
Elegant Anatomy
Vesalius’ Fabrica
This article provides a listing of known copies of the first two folio editions of Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1543 and 1555), revising earlier estimates. It shows that the Fabrica survives in much higher numbers than previously reported, and has a much wider geographical distribution, as well. The authors discuss the methodologies for conducting census in the digital age, provide an estimate of the print runs, and compare the s…
A long history of breakdowns
The introduction to this special issue argues that network breakdowns play an important and unacknowledged role in the shaping and emergence of scientific knowledge. It focuses on transnational scientific networks from the early modern Republic of Letters to 21st-century globalized science. It attempts to unite the disparate historiography of the early modern Republic of Letters, the literature on 20th-century globalization, and the scholarship o…
"Dániel Margócsy. Review of "Insect Artifice
Horses, Curiosities, and the Culture of Collection at Early Modern Germanic Courts
This article offers a new interpretation of the concept of wonder in early modern Europe by focusing on large collections. It shows that many princely Kunstkammern were located above stables, and argues that the horses downstairs and the curiosities upstairs performed similar roles in the courtly display of power. The size and design of stables shaped how curiosities were exhibited and viewed. These majestic buildings facilitated cursory viewing …
Datafication, Power and Control in Development
The collection, processing, storage and circulation of data are fundamental element of contemporary societies. While the positivistic literature on ‘data revolution’ finds it essential for improving development delivery, critical data studies stress the threats of datafication. In this article, we demonstrate that datafication has been happening continuously through history, driven by political and economic pressures. We use historical examples t…
Malinowski and malacology
This article situates the collecting practices of museums of natural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in dialogue with similar practices amongst societies in the Pacific by focusing on how European curators, dealers in natural history and Pacific Islanders shared a common fascination with Spondylus shells. In particular, this article examines the processes for turning Spondylus shells into unique or duplicate specimens. Spo…
Starry Messengers
Translation at Work
important questions about how the practical problems of rendering scientific texts from one language to another generate new knowledge, and how choices of translation shape what science and medicine mean to different communities.1If the earlier scholarship on translation theory engaged primarily with works of literature, this growing interest in scientific and medical works challenges old assumptions that science either speaks the universal langu…
‘A Spring of Immortal Colours’. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533–1588) and Picturing Plants in the Sixteenth Century
The Huguenot refugee artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues is traditionally known for his observations of North America and as the author of numerous albums of floral drawings. This article reassesses the attribution of several of these albums to Le Moyne based on documentary and stylistic evidence. It identifies the sixteenth-century Huguenot nobleman and diplomat Jacques de Morogues as the owner of one of the albums, and it discusses the productio…
Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation
It is the aim of this article to put questions of maintenance and repair in the history of science and technology under scrutiny, with a special focus on technologies and methods of transportation. The history of transportation is a history of trying to avoid shipwrecks and plane crashes. It is also a history of broken masts, worm-eaten hulls, the flat tires of cars, and endless delays at airports. This introductory article assesses the technolog…
Reading Machiavelli in 1943
This article examines how wartime conditions affect the practice of reading. Its focus is on how Machiavelli’s The Prince was read by a high school student, Gábor Fehér, in Hungary in World War II. By examining how Fehér studied Machiavelli to understand Hitler, and how Fehér reflected on contemporary thinkers’ writings about modernity, this article offers a contribution toward understanding how people from all walks of life reflected on the mean…
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