Daniel Patrick Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 194627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Patrick Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9115-3931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Astronomy and Astrology in Chinese Local Gazetteers
Popular Science: Astronomical Data in Chinese Local Gazetteers, Using LoGaRT
Among the many astronomical facts included in the “Xingye” 星野 (Star Field) and “Fenye” 分野 (Field Allocation) chapters of local gazetteers are figures for the polar distance and equatorial and ecliptical width of the constellation with which a given locality is associated. Though these are “fixed stars” ( hengxing 恆星), the orthodox values of these measures vary from one historical sky survey to another as a function of secular motion, the precessi…
Mathematics and Astronomy in the Ancient World: An East-Asian Perspective
Discerning Patterns in Medieval Chinese Polymathy Through Bibliometrics: Astronomy, Mathematics, and their Historical Sister Sciences
One difficulty in studying “astronomers” and “mathematicians” as distinct classes in ancient China is that the important ones were neither specialists nor professionals, but polymaths, with little to distinguish them from any other intellectual. Another difficulty, confounding any modern taxonomy, is the tight relationship between astronomy, mathematics, Classical exegesis, and ritual. This article uses the thousands of lost and extant works cata…
Modern Math for Ancient Odes: The Commentarial Layers of the Maoshi zhengyi on the Eclipse in “Shiyue zhi jiao”
This article discusses the commentators, commentarial layers, knowledge and argumentation in Kong Yingda’s (584–648) treatment of the ode “Shiyue zhi jiao” in the Maoshi zhengyi (643). Much had changed between Zheng Xuan (127–200) and Kong Yingda’s day as concerned the Han (202 BC – AD 220) world order, the feasibility of its “cosmological synthesis” in the sciences, and man’s understanding of eclipses, such as feature in this ode. Kong’s subcomm…
A Radical Proposition on the Origins of the Received Mathematical Classic the Gnomon of Zhou (Zhoubi 周髀)
Rencontres entre science et religion en Chine médiévale
The Annual Difference: How a Four-Century Debate between Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist Thinkers on a Problem of Classical Exegesis Shaped a Predictive Mathematical Construct
In China, the precession of the equinoxes was conceptualized as an "annual difference" (suicha 歲差) between the tropical and sidereal year. The idea was introduced in the fourth century, it saw universal acceptance from the eighth century on, and it was in the four centuries in between that it was tried, debated, and spread whilst a Mediterranean-origin concept thereof arrived from India. Its four-century journey from fringe idea to universal trut…
Modernism Is Not for Children: Annette Michelson, Film Theory, and the Avant-Garde
This article argues that a sustained, consistent, and ambitious argument underlies Annette Michelson’s writings on art and film across the 1970s and 1980s. Working in relation to modernist discourses of the 1960s, Michelson links an account of time and temporal organization in cinema to a developmental model of film spectatorship. Read in this way, Michelson’s writing represents an alternate and overlooked strand of film theory and criticism, one…
Introduction: Medium/Environment
Introduction: Media Archaeology and the Resources of Film Studies
The introduction to this special issue traces the interactions between the rise of media archaeology and the field of cinema and media studies. Arguing that media archaeology provided a necessary corrective around the question of media, I aim to show how its focus on historical narratives—especially on models of temporality—has led to a critical stagnation and a blind spot with regard to non-Western media. Drawing on the resources in film studies…
Regional Networks in Chinese Mathematics and Astronomy, 311–618 ce
This article offers a social and geographical network analysis of all attested works, authors, and practitioners in the mathematical sciences in China over the period of disunion and reunification from 311 to 618 ce . Inspired by Karine Chemla’s (2009) efforts to distinguish “different mathematical cultures” within the extant corpus of suan 筭/算 procedure texts, the goal is to explore a viable framework within which to break down the history of Ch…
Islam and Asia: A History (by Chiara Formichi)
In recent months, scholars of Islamic Studies in North America have engaged in an occasionally heated debate-in journals and on social media-about the parameters and methodologies of the field.In a recent article in the Journal of the Academy of Religion (88:4), Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst points to deep-seated tensions over how "normative Islam" is conceptualized in the modern academy.Fuerst examines recent job advertisements in Islamic studies to …
Reflections on Visual and Material Sources for the History of the Exact Sciences in Early Imperial China
This article takes stock of the seeming wealth of visual and material sources concerning stars and numbers that has come down to us from early imperial China (221 BCE-755 CE) and their minimal impact on how we write the history of astronomy and mathematics in this period. My goal is to offer ideas about how we might better engage with these sources and work across ancient and modern disciplines. I begin by outlining the conceptual categories into…
Towards a natural history of animated backgrounds
Writing about animation is still dominated by what Scott Bukatman calls ‘the ur-text for animation studies’, Sergei Eisenstein’s commentary on Disney.1 One can enumerate historical and institutional reasons for this enduring attraction: Eisenstein’s credentials as both a filmmaker and a film theorist; his unabashed enthusiasm for animation; his claims for its philosophical importance. Taken together his writings have often served to justify the p…
Monographs in Tang Official Historiography: Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu)
No Comment: Remarks on the Source, Selection, Reliability, and Function of Non-Terrestrial Events Recorded in the Hou Hanshu “Benji” (Basic Annals)
This article compares the solar eclipse records in Fan Ye’s Hou Hanshu “Benji” 本紀to those in the Dongguan Hanji (225 CE), Sima Biao’s Xu Hanshu “Wuxing zhi” 五行志, Yuan Hong’s Hou Hanji, as well as Espenak and Meeus’ Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses to comment upon the source, selection, reliability, and function of the eclipse records included in his imperial annals of the Eastern Han (25–220 CE). It finds that while Fan Ye stuck faithfully…
Writing in Turns: An Analysis of Scribal Hands in the Bamboo Manuscript Suan shu shu 筭數書 (Writings on Mathematical Procedures) from Zhangjiashan Tomb No. 247 (張家山247號墓漢簡《筭數書》寫手再探)
Refining our previous study in Jianbo 簡帛 12 (2016), this article examines the back-and-forth between scribal hands in the Suan shu shu 筭數書 from Zhangjiashan 張家山 M247 (sealed ≥186 b.c.e.). Introducing an improved methodology, we establish a link between one of the Suan shu shu's scriptors and four other manuscripts in the same tomb, offering a hand-informed reading of the former to hypothesize what this means. 以《簡帛》第12輯(2016 年)的原作爲基礎,本文對張家山247號漢墓《…
Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China: Observation, Sagehood and the Individual
Challenging monolithic modern narratives about 'Chinese science', Daniel Patrick Morgan examines the astral sciences in China c.221 BCE–750 CE as a study in the disunities of scientific cultures and the narratives by which ancients and moderns alike have fought to instil them with a sense of unity. The book focuses on four unifying 'legends' recounted by contemporary subjects: the first two, redolent of antiquity, are the 'observing of signs' and…
Expanding the Rebalance: Confronting China in Latin America
China's expansion into Latin America might well outflank the US rebalance in Asia. The United States needs a broader strategic option, one capable of ensuring access to markets and of reducing future strategic risk to US interests in Latin America
Play with Danger: Vernacular Modernism and the Problem of Criticism
Miriam Hansen's idea of vernacular modernism explains the global appeal of classical Hollywood cinema by drawing on its affinity with modernist aesthetics. She argues that cinema's modernism is part of a widespread mass culture response to the changing features of modern life and that Hollywood cinema's global appeal is based on the incarnation of the modern and up-to-date. But how do we determine whether any given film was, or could have been, a…
Bazin's Modernism
One of the basic assumptions about André Bazin's theory of cinema has been that his idea of realism stands in direct opposition to modernism. In this article, I further develop a revised account of Bazin's realism that I have offered elsewhere, which rethinks the basic assumptions of ontology and realism in his work. This brings Bazin into a surprising affinity with tenets of high (reflexive) modernism. From this position, a re-examination of his…
Max Ophuls and the Limits of Virtuosity: On the Aesthetics and Ethics of Camera Movement
The place of nature in Godard's late films
The place of nature in Godard' s late films
Rethinking Bazin: Ontology and Realist Aesthetics
Teacher-Student Interaction Patterns in Classrooms with Mainstreamed Mildly Handicapped Students
Teacher-student interaction patterns in 12 third-grade mainstreamed classrooms were observed with four groups of students: (1) nonhandicapped high achievers, (2) nonhandicapped low achievers, (3) learning disabled, and (4) behaviorally handicapped. Teacher-student interaction was defined using 16 dependent measures derived from the Brophy-Good Teacher-Child Dyadic Interaction System. Multivariate and Univariate Analysis of Variance procedures dem…
Bazin's Modernism
One of the basic assumptions about André Bazin's theory of cinema has been that his idea of realism stands in direct opposition to modernism. In this article, I further develop a revised account of Bazin's realism that I have offered elsewhere, which rethinks the basic assumptions of ontology and realism in his work. This brings Bazin into a surprising affinity with tenets of high (reflexive) modernism. From this position, a re-examination of his…
Introduction: Medium/Environment
Max Ophuls and the Limits of Virtuosity: On the Aesthetics and Ethics of Camera Movement
Teacher-Student Interaction Patterns in Classrooms with Mainstreamed Mildly Handicapped Students
Teacher-student interaction patterns in 12 third-grade mainstreamed classrooms were observed with four groups of students: (1) nonhandicapped high achievers, (2) nonhandicapped low achievers, (3) learning disabled, and (4) behaviorally handicapped. Teacher-student interaction was defined using 16 dependent measures derived from the Brophy-Good Teacher-Child Dyadic Interaction System. Multivariate and Univariate Analysis of Variance procedures dem…
Rethinking Bazin: Ontology and Realist Aesthetics
The place of nature in Godard's late films
The place of nature in Godard' s late films
Max Ophuls and the Limits of Virtuosity: On the Aesthetics and Ethics of Camera Movement
Bazin's Modernism
One of the basic assumptions about André Bazin's theory of cinema has been that his idea of realism stands in direct opposition to modernism. In this article, I further develop a revised account of Bazin's realism that I have offered elsewhere, which rethinks the basic assumptions of ontology and realism in his work. This brings Bazin into a surprising affinity with tenets of high (reflexive) modernism. From this position, a re-examination of his…
Play with Danger: Vernacular Modernism and the Problem of Criticism
Miriam Hansen's idea of vernacular modernism explains the global appeal of classical Hollywood cinema by drawing on its affinity with modernist aesthetics. She argues that cinema's modernism is part of a widespread mass culture response to the changing features of modern life and that Hollywood cinema's global appeal is based on the incarnation of the modern and up-to-date. But how do we determine whether any given film was, or could have been, a…
Expanding the Rebalance: Confronting China in Latin America
China's expansion into Latin America might well outflank the US rebalance in Asia. The United States needs a broader strategic option, one capable of ensuring access to markets and of reducing future strategic risk to US interests in Latin America
Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China: Observation, Sagehood and the Individual
Challenging monolithic modern narratives about 'Chinese science', Daniel Patrick Morgan examines the astral sciences in China c.221 BCE–750 CE as a study in the disunities of scientific cultures and the narratives by which ancients and moderns alike have fought to instil them with a sense of unity. The book focuses on four unifying 'legends' recounted by contemporary subjects: the first two, redolent of antiquity, are the 'observing of signs' and…
Writing in Turns: An Analysis of Scribal Hands in the Bamboo Manuscript Suan shu shu 筭數書 (Writings on Mathematical Procedures) from Zhangjiashan Tomb No. 247 (張家山247號墓漢簡《筭數書》寫手再探)
Refining our previous study in Jianbo 簡帛 12 (2016), this article examines the back-and-forth between scribal hands in the Suan shu shu 筭數書 from Zhangjiashan 張家山 M247 (sealed ≥186 b.c.e.). Introducing an improved methodology, we establish a link between one of the Suan shu shu's scriptors and four other manuscripts in the same tomb, offering a hand-informed reading of the former to hypothesize what this means. 以《簡帛》第12輯(2016 年)的原作爲基礎,本文對張家山247號漢墓《…
Monographs in Tang Official Historiography: Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu)
No Comment: Remarks on the Source, Selection, Reliability, and Function of Non-Terrestrial Events Recorded in the Hou Hanshu “Benji” (Basic Annals)
This article compares the solar eclipse records in Fan Ye’s Hou Hanshu “Benji” 本紀to those in the Dongguan Hanji (225 CE), Sima Biao’s Xu Hanshu “Wuxing zhi” 五行志, Yuan Hong’s Hou Hanji, as well as Espenak and Meeus’ Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses to comment upon the source, selection, reliability, and function of the eclipse records included in his imperial annals of the Eastern Han (25–220 CE). It finds that while Fan Ye stuck faithfully…
Reflections on Visual and Material Sources for the History of the Exact Sciences in Early Imperial China
This article takes stock of the seeming wealth of visual and material sources concerning stars and numbers that has come down to us from early imperial China (221 BCE-755 CE) and their minimal impact on how we write the history of astronomy and mathematics in this period. My goal is to offer ideas about how we might better engage with these sources and work across ancient and modern disciplines. I begin by outlining the conceptual categories into…
Towards a natural history of animated backgrounds
Writing about animation is still dominated by what Scott Bukatman calls ‘the ur-text for animation studies’, Sergei Eisenstein’s commentary on Disney.1 One can enumerate historical and institutional reasons for this enduring attraction: Eisenstein’s credentials as both a filmmaker and a film theorist; his unabashed enthusiasm for animation; his claims for its philosophical importance. Taken together his writings have often served to justify the p…
Regional Networks in Chinese Mathematics and Astronomy, 311–618 ce
This article offers a social and geographical network analysis of all attested works, authors, and practitioners in the mathematical sciences in China over the period of disunion and reunification from 311 to 618 ce . Inspired by Karine Chemla’s (2009) efforts to distinguish “different mathematical cultures” within the extant corpus of suan 筭/算 procedure texts, the goal is to explore a viable framework within which to break down the history of Ch…
Islam and Asia: A History (by Chiara Formichi)
In recent months, scholars of Islamic Studies in North America have engaged in an occasionally heated debate-in journals and on social media-about the parameters and methodologies of the field.In a recent article in the Journal of the Academy of Religion (88:4), Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst points to deep-seated tensions over how "normative Islam" is conceptualized in the modern academy.Fuerst examines recent job advertisements in Islamic studies to …
Introduction: Media Archaeology and the Resources of Film Studies
The introduction to this special issue traces the interactions between the rise of media archaeology and the field of cinema and media studies. Arguing that media archaeology provided a necessary corrective around the question of media, I aim to show how its focus on historical narratives—especially on models of temporality—has led to a critical stagnation and a blind spot with regard to non-Western media. Drawing on the resources in film studies…
Modernism Is Not for Children: Annette Michelson, Film Theory, and the Avant-Garde
This article argues that a sustained, consistent, and ambitious argument underlies Annette Michelson’s writings on art and film across the 1970s and 1980s. Working in relation to modernist discourses of the 1960s, Michelson links an account of time and temporal organization in cinema to a developmental model of film spectatorship. Read in this way, Michelson’s writing represents an alternate and overlooked strand of film theory and criticism, one…
Introduction: Medium/Environment
The Annual Difference: How a Four-Century Debate between Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist Thinkers on a Problem of Classical Exegesis Shaped a Predictive Mathematical Construct
In China, the precession of the equinoxes was conceptualized as an "annual difference" (suicha 歲差) between the tropical and sidereal year. The idea was introduced in the fourth century, it saw universal acceptance from the eighth century on, and it was in the four centuries in between that it was tried, debated, and spread whilst a Mediterranean-origin concept thereof arrived from India. Its four-century journey from fringe idea to universal trut…
Mathematics and Astronomy in the Ancient World: An East-Asian Perspective
Discerning Patterns in Medieval Chinese Polymathy Through Bibliometrics: Astronomy, Mathematics, and their Historical Sister Sciences
One difficulty in studying “astronomers” and “mathematicians” as distinct classes in ancient China is that the important ones were neither specialists nor professionals, but polymaths, with little to distinguish them from any other intellectual. Another difficulty, confounding any modern taxonomy, is the tight relationship between astronomy, mathematics, Classical exegesis, and ritual. This article uses the thousands of lost and extant works cata…
Modern Math for Ancient Odes: The Commentarial Layers of the Maoshi zhengyi on the Eclipse in “Shiyue zhi jiao”
This article discusses the commentators, commentarial layers, knowledge and argumentation in Kong Yingda’s (584–648) treatment of the ode “Shiyue zhi jiao” in the Maoshi zhengyi (643). Much had changed between Zheng Xuan (127–200) and Kong Yingda’s day as concerned the Han (202 BC – AD 220) world order, the feasibility of its “cosmological synthesis” in the sciences, and man’s understanding of eclipses, such as feature in this ode. Kong’s subcomm…
A Radical Proposition on the Origins of the Received Mathematical Classic the Gnomon of Zhou (Zhoubi 周髀)
Rencontres entre science et religion en Chine médiévale
Astronomy and Astrology in Chinese Local Gazetteers
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